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Tue, 07/05/2011 - 09:05
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Thailand's official election results expected on July 5
BANGKOK, July 5 (TNA) - The Election Commission of Thailand (EC) is likely to officially announce results of the country's Sunday general election by Tuesday.
Paiboon Lekprom, chief of the EC's public relations office, told reporters that the announcement of the July 3 national poll official results had to be delayed until, probably, July 5, as voting results from some provinces had not yet reached his agency.
Paiboon acknowledged that his election agency had received some 95 per cent of official reports from constituencies nationwide so far and was waiting for the rest, including those from Mae Hong Son and Tak Provinces, where unfavourable weather conditions had delayed the transfer of the official reports to Bangkok.
Meanwhile, an election commissioner, Prapan Naigowit, said that his election agency would then begin endorsing elected MPs by July 12, after clearing protests on balloting outcome and complaints on electoral fraud, and that he expected official probes on the complaints, nearly 200 cases now, would be completed within a 30-day deadline.
Prapan noted, however, if certain cases remained unresolved, the EC would allow elected MPs to first report to duty under a condition that final decisions on their qualifications would be issued on later dates.
According to the election commissioner, about 75 per cent of Thailand's total eligible voters turned out to exercise their right in the July 3 general election, a historic highest figure. (TNA)
Paiboon Lekprom, chief of the EC's public relations office, told reporters that the announcement of the July 3 national poll official results had to be delayed until, probably, July 5, as voting results from some provinces had not yet reached his agency.
Paiboon acknowledged that his election agency had received some 95 per cent of official reports from constituencies nationwide so far and was waiting for the rest, including those from Mae Hong Son and Tak Provinces, where unfavourable weather conditions had delayed the transfer of the official reports to Bangkok.
Meanwhile, an election commissioner, Prapan Naigowit, said that his election agency would then begin endorsing elected MPs by July 12, after clearing protests on balloting outcome and complaints on electoral fraud, and that he expected official probes on the complaints, nearly 200 cases now, would be completed within a 30-day deadline.
Prapan noted, however, if certain cases remained unresolved, the EC would allow elected MPs to first report to duty under a condition that final decisions on their qualifications would be issued on later dates.
According to the election commissioner, about 75 per cent of Thailand's total eligible voters turned out to exercise their right in the July 3 general election, a historic highest figure. (TNA)
