To ensure sober votes are cast for the best people, Thailand designates Election Day a “dry” day when no booze can be sold.
The minders of public morality are going a step further this year and extending prohibition seven days before the polls open to the day less than 3% of the population has registered to vote early.
That means no alcohol may be sold from 6pm on May 6 until 6pm on the early voting day of May 7, as well as 6pm on May 13 to 6pm on May 14, aka Election Day.
So, take solace in the fact that two Saturdays of inconvenience means a few voters won’t walk into their polling stations with beer goggles on.
