Thailand’s two-ballot electoral system comes into force

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Constitutional amendments regarding the two-ballot electoral system take effect today (November 22nd) following the publication in the Royal Gazette yesterday.

 

Under the two-ballot electoral system, the House of Representatives will still be made up of 500 members, but 400 of whom are elected through the constituency electoral system and 100 are party-list MPs seated in accordance with the combined votes received by each party from all constituencies across the country.

 

Voters will be given two ballots, one for their constituency MP and the other for the party-list MP.  The two ballot electoral system will be used in the next general election.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailands-two-ballot-electoral-system-comes-into-force/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-11-22

 

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[Thailand]

And you still get a "military" government!

[tomacht8]

It's always good to be up at 250 before the game even starts.

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, tomacht8 said:

It's always good to be up at 250 before the game even starts.

yes, it means an opposition party would need to get approximately 67% of all the electoral votes to get them out. Total farce of a democracy, what country apart from communist ones or dodgy Islamic ones gets 67% of the vote ? And none of them for the party not in power.

 

That said even if they did get them out, they'd say there was a voting issue, do a re-run, and if lost again have a new coup  

[hotchilli]

Regardless of the vote the "count" will always fall in the favour of the military... they're here to stay.

[hansnl]

5 hours ago, Thailand said:

And you still get a "military" government!

You think the "civilian" governments were better?

[zzaa09]

6 hours ago, Thailand said:

And you still get a "military" government!

.....as it's been for decades.

Nothing like a free and open democratic manner.

 

Thaispeak translates as Plutocracy. 

[Eric Loh]

This has huge bearing on the next election. The 2019 election ran on the junta interpretation of the party lists that cost the opposition coalition 7 fewer seats. If the party lists were awarded based on the 2 votes system, the coalition would have got 255 seats to form the government. This is bad news for Palang Phacharat and their allies and especially for Prayut. 

[zzaa09]

3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

yes, it means an opposition party would need to get approximately 67% of all the electoral votes to get them out. Total farce of a democracy, what country apart from communist ones or dodgy Islamic ones gets 67% of the vote ? And none of them for the party not in power.

 

That said even if they did get them out, they'd say there was a voting issue, do a re-run, and if lost again have a new coup  

The usual historical cycle.

Same as it ever was.