“Somchai” pointed out that the Election Commission of Thailand clarified that it had not yet been cleared. Looking at selecting the country that is not appropriate, confused Taiwan-Korea-Malay Tens of thousands of Thai people do not go. But choose to go to the Thai people in the hundreds Pendant to open travel budget-souvenirs
Today (April 19), Mr. Somchai Srisuthiyakorn, president of the strategy to drive the Seri Ruam Thai Party’s policy gave an interview in the event that the ECT clarified about traveling to follow up on elections outside the state and that it was in accordance with the allocated budget that the mission of monitoring the elections of Thai people outside the Kingdom It is one of the ECT’s missions that must be completed in order to avoid causing problems. It’s just that the total number of electoral commissions spread to different countries. Society may think that it is not appropriate. Including choosing a country that he can accept with the Election Commission’s visit to Australia and New Zealand because it is a country that used to have problems with elections outside the Kingdom in the past or even go to work in the United States Because there are 400,000 Thais living in total, but the route in 2 European countries, Switzerland and Germany, has been inspected by the ECT and thought that it should not be re-checked. As for Hungary and Slovakia, there are only more than 8,000 Thai people in the two countries, which is very small, should not be the country chosen to monitor.
“There are other countries that are more important, such as Taiwan. There are 80,000 Thai people. Why not go? South Korea has tens of thousands of Thai people, why not go? Malaysia has had problems managing in the past, why not go? I think it might not be appropriate. As for the President of the Election Commission who has traveled to South Africa, Kenya and Morocco, I have to say that he has put in all his efforts. But I still don’t think it’s a point where there are enough Thai people, such as Morocco and Kenya, where there are only hundreds of Thai people. In addition, Kenya is the host country to send the card back to Thailand. Only 171 people registered to vote outside the Kingdom, with the three countries having a low impact. Egypt, Thai people are more than the top in Africa. You should go, but you don’t go.”
Somchai also asked the Election Commission to disclose the budget for all travel expenses for each route. Including the noise of rumblings about the value of the souvenir, which is worth more than 4.2 thousand baht, what is it? and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which said the system was already digital. It should reveal how many Thai people abroad at this time, exactly. The Department of Consular Affairs’ figures released publicly for 2022 are only available by continent. but not disclosed by country This means that the latest country data is the year 2020, which is already very outdated. therefore would like the Department of Consular Affairs to disclose how many Thai people abroad in each country and how many people register to vote outside the Kingdom in each country? To be transparent that those points arrive in Thailand and the cards are all counted.