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Pheu Thai blasts EC plan to redraw poll boundaries

People walk past an election campaign poster of the Pheu Thai Party on Tanao Road in Bangkok last month. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)

The Pheu Thai Party has slammed the Election Commission’s plan to redraw electoral constituency boundaries ahead of the next elections, calling it confusing and potentially against existing laws on elections.

The opposition party said it will lodge a petition against the EC’s proposed methods to redraw the boundaries, urging the election body to immediately review the models.

Constituency boundaries in Bangkok, for instance, would be determined using eight different methods, only five of which had been used in the past, said Pheu Thai MP for Bangkok and party spokeswoman, Theerarat…

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