Senator candidates petition the Administrative Court to suspend the announcement of the Senator election results, urging the Election Commission to urgently examine the qualifications of 300 prospective Senators, not believing in their empty words, saying "let it go first and then take it down later", and not accepting the fact that candidates are split across groups, hoping to spread their own people to cover all 20 groups. Mr. Chaturon Boonbenjarat, Secretary-General of the Clean Politic Group and former candidate for the 20th group of the Bangkok Senate, filed a lawsuit against the Election Commission (EC) at the Supreme Administrative Court, claiming that it neglected to examine the qualifications of the candidates and failed to organize the election of the senators in accordance with the constitution. Therefore, he requested the court to open an emergency hearing to consider temporarily suspending the announcement of the certification of the senator election results until the qualifications of the 200 senators and 100 reserve candidates have been examined to ensure that they are legally qualified. Mr. Chaturant said that the process of selecting the 2024 senators, from the application to the district, provincial and national elections on June 26, will be a disaster. The public did not participate, but after the election, it became a national agenda. The public focused on the deception, the establishment of professional groups of the new senators. He did not devalue the profession, but the process of getting some people in, there were connections of some groups that tried to set up and bring people in, which he saw as applying without wanting to be senators according to the constitution. What we saw was that choosing not to vote for oneself was considered abnormal, and the selection of a professional group may have been wrong from the beginning, using officials, mechanisms of the Ministry of Interior, training, which some people understood and some did not. Some provinces have a lot of people, some distric ts use leniency, use judgment that does not meet the criteria or have personal ties or not. Therefore, not applying to the professional group is definitely a problem. Saying that it is the intention of the applicants, who may have many professions, then why specify 20 groups? Some groups are ambiguous and must be interpreted, but some groups are conflicting. It looks distorted. He did not devalue the profession, but some people may have been deceived by the organizers to distribute to different groups. To meet the target of 20 groups as much as possible 'Many people see this as unusual. If we let the 200 prospective senators go to work, I am afraid that some of them will not be suitable to be senators because they may be dominated by some groups, so they have filed a petition for the Administrative Court to issue an order of protection and an emergency investigation before the EC announces the results, which is expected to be on July 3, according to the EC's interview. There is still time for this matter, th ere is no rush. Because letting some senators go, I think that considering the approval of individuals to work in independent organizations is good. Considering important laws that affect people nationwide, I really cannot let them go. Therefore, I would like the EC to have time and thoroughly investigate again first. I confirm that I do not want the election to be invalid,' said Mr. Chaturant. The evidence submitted today includes evidence from the media, from encounters, and evidence from Mr. Somchai Saengka, a letter of objection from Mr. Klanarong Chanthik, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Independent Organizations under the Constitution, and evidence of zero votes for Senator candidates, including professional groups, submitted for consideration by the court. However, Wan-ek did not object because he saw that many people had already submitted their cases. When asked if the EC explained that it could first certify and then decide later, Mr. Chaturant said, 'No.' He did not trust this approach. From t he EC's past performance since the general election, how many people have been given red cards and yellow cards after they were let go? These are words that the EC can say, but the public's confidence is another matter. Therefore, to be honest, he still does not trust this. The reporter asked further that some people said that they did not want it to go on because they did not want the original senators appointed by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to continue their duties for a long time. Mr. Chaturon said that this was a different matter. He thought that if the EC seriously investigated, which the EC said that it had information and had obtained before the public knew, if this was the case, he believed that the EC had decisive evidence. It was a matter of whether they would dare to use the EC's power or not. In the case that the EC said that in the case of collusion, if there was no evidence of payment, it would be difficult to catch, he did not believe that the EC would not have evidence of payment for 40,000 people. It was a matter of whether to investigate the case or not. He would like to call on candidates who may have been misled, paid money, or were actually enticed and betrayed to submit evidence to the EC. This is a duty to the country. 'This time, the EC must accelerate for the sacred dignity of the EC, which does not only have the duty to organize elections, which anyone can organize. The public may not be as good as the EC, but in terms of the sacredness of the EC, in terms of catching corruption, knowing that there is wrongdoing and how to prosecute, the performance of this EC reminds me of the performance of previous ECs. They do not let things go easily. That is, they perform their duties with sacredness,' said Mr. Chaturant.-319.-Thai News Agency Source: Thai News Agency
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