Bangkok, Jan 30 – The Election Commission of Thailand (EC) is proceeding with its preparations for the forthcoming new general election, after its Tuesday’s meeting with the caretaker government resolved that the new national poll date will remain intact on Feb 2, 2014, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.
EC Chairman Supachai Somcharoen told journalists on Wednesday, as the caretaker government does not consider that the postponement of the Feb 2 general election will solve current problems, the EC must do its duty in carrying on organising the general election.
Supachai said that the EC will then ask security authorities to protect voters at polling units nationwide.
As anti-government protesters laid siege to some post offices to block the delivery of ballots to southern Thai provinces, the EC chair revealed that the election agency will find a way to bring ballots out of the three seized post offices in Thung Song District of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Hat Yai District of Songkhla Province and Chumphon Province.
Affected by the ongoing domestic political unrest, there has been no constituency candidate in the Thai South.
As the caretaker government insists on having the new general election on the coming Sunday, vote and election campaigns have, meanwhile, become active in many provinces.
– Bernama
