Pheu Thai to petition EC against Democrats

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PT to petition EC over Dem leaders

Published: 10 Mar 2013 at 14.39
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Pheu Thai Party's legal team plans to submit to the Election Commission texts of speeches made by core members of the Democrat Party during the last campaign prior to the Mar 3 Bangkok governor election, Prompong Nopparit said on Sunday.

Mr Prompong, the Pheu Thai spokesman, said the texts, extracted from tapes and videotapes of the campaign speeches, could be evidence of violations of Section 57 (5) of the Local Election Act against nine core members of the Democrat Party as well as MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra, the Democrat candidate who won the election.

The speeches, he said, contained mudslinging comments and false accusations against Pol Gen Pongsapat Pongcharoen, the Pheu Thai candidate in the gubernatorial election.

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abbub
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Discussion 25 : 11 Mar 2013 at 20.3125
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ATNN: Your numbers were corrected by Ricefield but I have another POV.

You suggest something new is called for.

A few years ago the NPP, the PAD's right wing party was allowed to establish itself after less than a week of consideration. It wants only 30% of government elected by the people. It receive a whopping 1.7% of the Bangkok votes!

Weeks before another party applied for registration. One word, "socialist" pop up somewhere in their party platform text and that was grounds enough to refuse it.

So you see even a party along the lines of European Social Democrats terrifies the power elites.
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Discussion 24 : 11 Mar 2013 at 12.4624
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Disc 18 - Sorry Tony, but you have it wrong. In the national election the Democrats got 35.15% not the PTP. PTP got 48.41% of those that voted. The PTP ended up with 265 of the 500 seats in parliament which is a majority. Now you can argue that many eligible voters didn't vote but as it's mandatory by law to vote in a national election and if you didn't vote you are disqualified from voting in the next national election, we shouldn't even throw them into the mix, right? 'Cause they can't vote in the next one either.
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Discussion 23 : 11 Mar 2013 at 09.1323
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DAO D21: "If you cant win then waste the Election commissions time trying to e null the result ."

As the democrats stated they would do after the PTP won the national elections.

Not as easy as sending in the tanks when you want a political party out of office though is it?
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Discussion 22 : 11 Mar 2013 at 09.1122
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LOY D0: Not only that (no, I am not a TS lover at all) but TS's party won the elections set up, overseen and run by the military when they were in power after the coup.

The PAD hit the streets and, backed by the courts and a military which stated "we will not interfere, it is the people who must decide" they managed to overthrow TWO governments within a space of a few months.

So we could say, that 4 times-elected party was overthrown 3 times.

And of course when the UDD/red shirts demonstrated the military decided it was not the people after all to decide Thailand's future.
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Discussion 21 : 10 Mar 2013 at 21.1621
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If you cant win then waste the Election commissions time trying to e null the result .
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Discussion 20 : 10 Mar 2013 at 20.1920
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I was under the impression that former prime minister Khun Thaksin was voted into power with the majority of votes cast - er - twice.
The second time was an unprecidented landslide in 2005 with the highest voter turnout in Thai history.
This is how he made it into office in the first (and second) place.
Please correct me if I am mistaken.
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Discussion 19 : 10 Mar 2013 at 19.4219
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#2 "A cooking show..." Well yes, Samak was ousted over a cooking show, but again, not really. He was openly operating as a "proxy candidate" (his words not mine) for a convicted criminal operating from abroad with foreign backing. They couldn't get him on that, so they got him with a lesser charge. That's unfortunately how justice works in Thailand. If the rule of law and meritocratic governance prevailed, Thaksin would never have made it into office in the first place.
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Discussion 18 : 10 Mar 2013 at 19.3018
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#14 Only 35% of all eligible voters voted Peua Thai in 2011, and even of those that voted, PTP failed to get a popular majority. PTP faced unprecedented challenges even in areas considered their "strongholds." They did better than the Democrats, but two sinking ships will inevitably end up at the bottom, regardless of which one is sinking faster at the moment. It's time for Thais to find something all together more seaworthy.
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Discussion 17 : 10 Mar 2013 at 19.2917
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The Bangkokians will never forget the Puea Thaksin regime's attacks on hospitals, arsons and killings of innocent Thais.
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Discussion 16 : 10 Mar 2013 at 19.1516
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Oh, D.14. android and D.12. majority, Yai Mien wants me to tell you that she was sorry that she forgot all about you.

Yes, you could also become deputy to Mister Kangkok too, same job, she said !

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