EC’s secretary-general sacked



BANGKOK: -- The Election Commission today resolved by four votes against one to sack Mr Puchong Nutrawong as the secretary-general of the Office of the Election Commission with immediate effect.

Mr Thanit Sriprathet, an expert of the EC’s Office, said that Mr Puchong had failed the commission’s performance assessment and several projects under his supervision were delayed.

The EC, in the meantime, appointed Mr Bunyakiat Rakchartcharoen, the most senior deputy secretary-general to become the acting secretary-general replacing Mr Puchong pending the appointment of a new secretary-general.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/ecs-secretary-general-sacked


-- Thai PBS 2015-12-09

Either he deserved it or tried to do a good job. Difficult to say when this is Thailand.

EC’s secretary-general sacked

Sacked to make crystal-sure there will never ever dever-lever be any election-collection...

Was a general election one of the delayed projects? Hardly his fault that!

Either he deserved it or tried to do a good job. Difficult to say when this is Thailand.

Agree 100%. They all should be shown the door. Maybe he is the sacrificial lamb?

Was a general election one of the delayed projects? Hardly his fault that!

Methinks they had a GENERAL election some months back.

The General decided one man, one vote. HIS.

Edited December 9, 201510 yr by jaywalker

Either he deserved it or tried to do a good job. Difficult to say when this is Thailand.

Agree 100%. They all should be shown the door. Maybe he is the sacrificial lamb?

Hopeless.

To be replaced with a man with a big gun

Edited December 9, 201510 yr by aussiesteve63

Just one member sacked?

The whole EC should have been sacked first after it failed to hold elections with 60 days of parliament being dissolved in October 2013 in accordance with the Constitution.

Secondly, the whole EC should have been sacked in the February 2, 2014 national election when it failed to provide alternate voting venues for 10% of voters in nine provinces or about 2 million voters who were prevented by the PDRC from voting. That failure became the leading cause for the Constitutional Court to invalidate the entire election by 22.5 million voters.

Just one member sacked?

The whole EC should have been sacked first after it failed to hold elections with 60 days of parliament being dissolved in October 2013 in accordance with the Constitution.

Secondly, the whole EC should have been sacked in the February 2, 2014 national election when it failed to provide alternate voting venues for 10% of voters in nine provinces or about 2 million voters who were prevented by the PDRC from voting. That failure became the leading cause for the Constitutional Court to invalidate the entire election by 22.5 million voters.

In all fairness they did have other things to attend to, eg the observer trip to Scotland for the referendum