Six of Thailand’s smaller parties to merge ahead of next election

[snoop1130]

 

Six small parties announced today (Wednesday) that they will merge to form a new party to contest the next election, due to the new electoral system which will make it almost impossible for a small party to win a House seat.

 

Dr. Ravee Maschamadol, leader the New Palangdharma Party, said today that the merger of the New Palangdharma, Thairuamthai, Thaichana, Green, Thai Rungruang and Thai Rungroj parties is the only way for them to go under the new electoral system.

 

Under the new system, there will one ballot for the election of constituency MPs and another for party-list MPs. The House will be made up of 400 constituency MPs and 100 party-list MPs, instead of 350 and 150 respectively under the old system. The distribution of the party-list seats will be calculated by dividing the total votes received by each party by 100, instead of 500 as in the previous election. This will minimize the chance of small parties being allocated party-list seats.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/six-of-thailands-smaller-parties-to-merge-ahead-of-next-election/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-12-14

 

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[RichardColeman]

Party merge or airport taxi pick up ? 

[Foghorn]

Party merge , polices and principals out the window , power and money matter more

[JRG23]

Good move.

Edited December 15, 2022 by JRG23

[hotchilli]

Mergers seldom last for long before the cracks show.

[zzaa09]

6 hours ago, JRG23 said:

Good move.

Not for the people it's not. They're literally forced to create such moves of manipulated consolidation. 

They have no choice nor say so in the manner - 

The bottom line and the bigger picture ensures that the controlling elite mafias retain their usual standing. 

Firm ruling Plutocratic infrastructures diminish/master any such quest for a sound democratic state. 

The historic Thai way.