10 hours ago, NanLaew said:

Hopeless. Absolutely bloody hopeless. Announcing banned candidates on the eve of a national election, just as candidates, their agents, election officials and voters are settling down for a well-earned beer or lao khao on Saturday evening. And then expecting that hungover election officials will correctly delete the banned candidates names from more than 50 million ballot sheets in almost a hundred thousand polling stations on Sunday?

That won't work for those who voted early last Sunday.

5 hours ago, mfd101 said:

My b/f reports how difficult it was to vote this morning, just here on the outskirts of little Prasat Surin ... main thing was trying to find on the papers the party & the individual(s) you wanted to vote for in an astonishing maze of parties & individuals.

My thought: Probably fine for individuals with high-level literacy in Thai (10%? 20%? of the population). But with limited literacy in his case and zero literacy in the case of older members of his family, making rational choices was simply impossible.

Same here. My partner could not find the person she wsnted to vote for and the party... The EC is smart to make things complicated surely gor the low educated netizens

UPDATE

Election Chief Weighs Action Against Party Leaders Over MP Candidates

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11 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Same here. My partner could not find the person she wsnted to vote for and the party... The EC is smart to make things complicated surely gor the low educated netizens

I think that is why you see the colours for each party. You hear people talking, vote red, blue, green, or orange. Waiting for the people to come up withthe pink party

I wonder which party won in those constituencies (well, not really).

‘They’ chuck curveballs when they realise it’s going the wrong way. Still a banana republic and will be for many years unfortunately.

On 2/8/2026 at 2:52 PM, mfd101 said:

You're probably right - your "best option" avoids a military or (more likely) legal coup and has the great virtue of giving the PP & its leadership some real-world government experience, which has to be good for the longer term.

Your "second best" is OK in theory but wouldn't last longer than the few days it would take for the courts to throw them out or BJT to swap partners..

Probably a good read - I guess we will see shortly.

On 2/8/2026 at 3:30 PM, ronnie50 said:

Maybe doable to keep the meddlesome establishment and courts quiet. But in that scenario, I'd still really hope that PP has a huge minority so that, while just short of a majority, it can keep most of the high-profile cabinet positions away from BJT - but let Anutin and his networks keep their weed shops.

Alternatively, if PP has that huge just-short-of-a-majority win, it could offer an olive branch to the Dems - who don't deserve it, but if the Dems can manage 30-40 seats, it could work - let Mark be an important player - maybe a deputy PM and let them have 1 or 2 other mid-level cabinet posts - that could placate the establishment enough. But FM, Interior Minister, Finance etc., must stay with PP.

BJT has surprised everyone - I was expecting them to win, but not by such a large margin. I was very surprised to see PT lost all the seats in Chiang Mai - they have been totally rejected, like the Democrats were decades ago after being the Govt.