Chadchart Sittipunt officially became the next Bangkok Governor yesterday (Tuesday) at 3pm, after the Election Commission (EC) finally certified the results of the Bangkok gubernatorial election, which the independent candidate won by a landslide on May 22.

 

The announcement came after a delay, due to a complaint filed with the EC by political activist Srisuwan Janya. He had questioned whether Chadchart, a 56-year-old former transport minister, had a hidden agenda when he used a vinyl fabric in the making of his campaign posters and whether the fabric has been recycled into bags and aprons. Srisuwan also accused Chadchart of “insulting the bureaucratic system”.

 

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The delay in the certification of Chadchart’s win drew much ire on social media, pushing the Thai hashtag asking what is wrong with the EC to a top trending hashtag since yesterday. The hashtag itself has attracted over 165,000 tweets so far.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/chadchart-officially-becomes-bangkoks-new-governor/

 

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4 hours ago, webfact said:

The delay in the certification of Chadchart’s win drew much ire on social media, pushing the Thai hashtag asking what is wrong with the EC to a top trending hashtag since yesterday. The hashtag itself has attracted over 165,000 tweets so far.

It's bent?

Does it really matters who is in charge, they are almost all (95%) rotten to the core. An unconnected and honest person can not make it that far. He had a head start in live, his father was a police general.

 

Congrats. I'm confident you'll do a better job than your unelected, incompetent predecessor.