The Pheu Thai Party has joined a call for the Election Commission (EC) to look into posters erected at many state-run hospitals across the country that incluide a large image of Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
The ministry’s controversial poster. His opponents say it is a veiled form of election campaigning. (Photo: Rural Doctors Society).
Mr Anutin insisted the posters were not electioneering, and said he was ready to respond to any investigation.
The main opposition Pheu Thai Party joined the Rural Doctors Society (RDS), representing doctors at state-run district hospitals nationwide, in urging the EC to investigate whether the posters contravene either the letter or spirit of the election law.
Each poster is estimated to have cost 2,000 baht to produce and install, and if the 10,000 or so health service centres nationwide all displayed them…
