Candidate dies a day before local election
People in 76 provinces to elect more than 60,000 tambon administrators Sunday
The only candidate for chairman of a tambon administration in Prachuap Khiri Khan province has died, a day before the first local election in eight years takes place.
The provincial election commission said on Saturday Pattanatichai Kanabkaew, the chairman candidate of tambon Chaikasem, had died.
Since he was the only candidate for the position, the election for the chairman would need to be rescheduled after Sunday, when voters in all 5,300 tambons nationwide cast the ballots.
It expected the poll…
