Difficult. One must list clear conditions for when costs for a new by-election will have to be paid by disqualified candidates or resigning members. How sick should one be to avoid paying upon resigning? Who will do the medical examination and who will be able to see the results?

For the constituency MP by-elections, perhaps the tab for the cost of election should be by the people in that constituency.

Let them be the ones to decide the validity of the person resigning or being disqualified after election.

As it is now, the only time someone other than the taxpayer pays for the election is if a winning candidate is red-carded.

Still, it would be magnanimous of the billionairess Yaowapha if she offered to cover the costs associated with both by-elections caused by her daughter's disqualification AND her aide's abrupt resignation. It's pocket change to her.

Besides, if she runs for it again, she'll get it all back within days of her being back at the trough.

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Love the bile...............

By your logic, presumably, the poor people should not run because they can't afford it ??

Or, only rich people you don't approve of should pay.

Gotta admit it you have a point there.

Perhaps you could explain his babbling, then.

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March 18, 2013

The upcoming by-election in Chiang Mai is expected to cost Bt10 million while the resigning politician does not have to pay for it, Election Commission member Prapun Naigowit said Monday.

However, he said the EC had already proposed changes to the law on local administration election so that an incumbent position holder who resigns before the term end should pay for the cost of by-election but the law passing is still under progress.

The Nation http://www.nationmul...C-30202170.html

Difficult. One must list clear conditions for when costs for a new by-election will have to be paid by disqualified candidates or resigning members. How sick should one be to avoid paying upon resigning? Who will do the medical examination and who will be able to see the results?

For the constituency MP by-elections, perhaps the tab for the cost of election should be by the people in that constituency.

Let them be the ones to decide the validity of the person resigning or being disqualified after election.

As it is now, the only time someone other than the taxpayer pays for the election is if a winning candidate is red-carded.

Still, it would be magnanimous of the billionairess Yaowapha if she offered to cover the costs associated with both by-elections caused by her daughter's disqualification AND her aide's abrupt resignation. It's pocket change to her.

Besides, if she runs for it again, she'll get it all back within days of her being back at the trough.

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Love the bile...............

By your logic, presumably, the poor people should not run because they can't afford it ??

Or, only rich people you don't approve of should pay.

Gotta admit it you have a point there.

How so? If they run the full term or have to resign for a legitimate reason they would have nothing to pay. Only if it was part of some nefarious machination would the penalty be incurred. However, philW, under the present system how does a poor person afford to run an election campaign?

"By what disjointed neuron synapse jumping is your convoluted conclusion made by?"

Well done Bucholze, so many adjectives, all in the same sentence.

A whole sequence of them, did you do this yourself ??

How very 5th Form. ( 4th grade ?? )

Very good philw, it looks like you have parsed sentence on Buchholz once again.