The Election Commission said late Monday afternoon that it would not take up today whether Chadchart Sittipunt would indeed – as more than a million residents voted for – be Bangkok’s next governor.
Amid rising anxiety that the governor-elect would be torpedoed by the military-backed government in the same way other popular figures have been sidelined from politics, the public was anxiously awaiting for the commission’s routine certification process of the election in which the independent, centrist won in a historic landslide of 1.4 million votes.
Complaints have spread that the commission is once again acting to subvert the will of the very voters’ it is tasked with protecting.
“This shows the Election Commission is very abnormal with principles and practices that show its bad intentions,” one tweet read. “Are they being used as someone’s…
