BANGKOK, April 5 (TNA) — Election commissioners explain the reasons why the Election Commission is still unable to announce vote results.
Commissioners Pakorn Mahannop and Thitichet Nuchanat held a press conference to explain the EC’s work amid protests from opponents who were upset with delayed election results and uncertainty in the calculation of party list MPs.
Mr Pakorn said the EC received about 300 election-related complaints including doubts on winners in 66 constituencies. Investigations into the complaints could result in vote recounts and re-voting which might change the number of votes of particular parties. That would affect the calculation of list MPs. Therefore, the EC could not announce the results of list MPs right away, Mr Pakorn said.
“A major duty of the EC is to make the election clean and fair. It will investigate all complaints, no matter which parties filed them,” he said.
He insisted that the election law prohibited the EC to immediately announce the vote results of any constituencies that did not face any complaints or where complaints were concluded.
Mr Pakorn also said that there was only one formula to calculate the numbers of party list MPs but the calculation had to wait for the final results of constituency MPs.
He said the EC would announce the vote results of at least 333 constituencies, or 95% of all constituencies, by May 9. (TNA)
