“Sonthiya” petitioned the Inspector General to ask the Constitutional Court to invalidate the 2019 election because the Election Commission calculated the number of MPs including foreigners.
On February 22, at the Office of the Ombudsman, Mr. Sonthiya Sawasdee, Secretary General of the Federation of Thai State Auditors filed a complaint letter to the Ombudsman through Mr. Piya Luedechkul, director of the Office of Complaints Investigation In the event that the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) acts contrary to Section 5 and Section 86 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand regarding the adoption of the number of non-Thai citizens counted as citizens who are calculated together with the citizens of Thai nationality throughout the country, defined as Members of the House of Representatives under section 86 to send to the Constitutional Court to rule that the election management of the Election Commission on March 24, 2019 is unconstitutional. and request that the election be revoked
Mr. Sonthiya said that according to the Election Commission of Thailand, the Election Commission of MPs will be held in 2023, which will be prepared on a constituency basis. by specifying the number MPs in each province should have and dividing constituencies according to Section 86 of the 2017 Constitution, with the said section using the number of people throughout the country as evidenced by the civil registration announced in the last year before the election year averaged by the number of MPs received To be considered the number of citizens per MP. In addition, the ECT admitted that the previous election held on March 24, 2019, the ECT included the number of people without Thai nationality in the calculation together with those who have Thai nationality. It is the number of people throughout the country to determine the number of MPs. must also be in accordance with this Section 86.
Mr. Sonthiya said that the Election Commission had a resolution to submit a petition to the Constitutional Court to rule on the word People of the whole country according to Section 86 of the 2017 constitution means only Thai nationals or including non-Thai nationals as well. Is the district under Section 86 in the previous election held on March 24, 2019 correct? By just sending it to the Constitutional Court to interpret before the election in 2023, in fact, the Election Commission should have to submit the matter on the interpretation of such sections to the Constitutional Court before the 2019 election, not just sending it to be interpreted later. election
Therefore, this Election Commission Hundreds of thousands of non-Thai citizens were taken as the basis for calculating the allocation of the number of MPs by district divisions in each province. causing variations that are not true to reality causing the election on March 24, 2019 to be unfair Therefore, it is an election that is not in accordance with the 2017 Constitution, Section 2, Section 3, Section 5 and Section 86 since the beginning of the election management process. therefore came to submit a petition to the Constitutional Court to order the election management of the The Election Commission of Thailand on March 24, 2019, was inconsistent with Section 86 of the 2017 Constitution by requesting that the election be revoked and null and void.
