BANGKOK, April 26 (TNA) — The Ombudsman resolved to ask the Constitutional Court to rule on a formula to calculate party list MPs for political parties.
Raksagecha Chaechai, secretary-general of the Office of the Ombudsman, said the Ombudsman considered many electoral complaints from Rueangkrai Leekitwatana, former member of the disbanded Thai Raksa Chart Party, and Wirat Kalyasiri, an MP candidate of the Democrat Party.
After the consideration, the Ombudsman decided to ask the Constitutional Court to rule on a formula to calculate the number of party list MPs of political parties.
The decision was made because Section 91 of the constitution described the calculation method on five sub-sections but the organic law on the MP election elaborated the calculation on eight sub-sections that included new content in addition to those in the constitution, Mr Raksagecha said.
The Office of the Ombudsman would send its petition to the Constitutional Court by April 29, he said.
“The stance of the Ombudsman does not oblige any other organization but the Election Commission may use it as a guideline for its consideration… I do not know if the court’s consideration will delay the EC’s announcement of election results from the schedule of May 9 or not,” Mr Raksagecha said.
The Ombudsman dismissed accusations about inconsistent numbers of ballots, the exclusion of ballots from voters in New Zealand and the number of stateless people being used to design constituencies. (TNA)
