General Election 2023

Vote counting in the northern province of Phitsanulok was temporarily suspended on Sunday evening as a summer storm wreaked havoc on the election centre for Constituency 1 in Muang district.

Lek Boon-Air, a 109-year-old Uttaradit local was escorted by her family to cast her vote at a polling station in Muang district’s Na Noi Witthaya School on Sunday morning.

Chart Thai Pattana Party leader Varawut Silpa-Archa stopped off to pay respects at his father’s statue in Suphanburi province before casting his vote on Sunday morning.

Palang Pracharath leader General Prawit Wongsuwan said on Sunday morning he was not particularly excited because he did not know who to cast his vote for.

The Election Commission (EC) dismissed reports of some 300,000 envelopes for early voting ballots being illegible as fake news, saying its officials only had to try and decipher some 10,000 envelopes.

The public can monitor Bangkok officials checking ballots for the May 14 election via CCTV installed at polling stations, deputy governor Sanon Wangsrangboon said on Thursday, after inspecting the strongroom being used to store ballots at the election administration centre at Phra Nakhon district office.

The people of Thailand are hoping that the long-awaited general election will generate substantial changes in the country, otherwise Thailand risks being unable to catch up with the rest of the world.

The Election Commission (EC) announced on Wednesday that the report of 581 extra voters found in Songkhla province during advance voting last Sunday was fake news.

Residents of Nakhon Si Thammarat “cannot be bought with money”, the Democrat Party said on Tuesday, singing the praises of the locals while urging them to vote for the party that “never leaves the Southerners’ side in any situation”, in the upcoming general election this Sunday.

Chart Thai Pattana Party leader Varawut Silpa-Archa has promised to draft a new constitution within 100 days if the party joins a government coalition after the May 14 general election.

Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat responded on Tuesday to an allegation that he holds media shares, explaining that the shares are a family heritage and he is just the manager of that heritage.

Fifty constituency MP candidates of United Thai Nation and their supporters gathered at the party’s headquarters in Bangkok on Tuesday to protest the lack of financial support from the party for their general election campaigns.

The Nation has invited experts and prominent figures from a variety of political parties to participate in our renowned "The Nation Roundtable," prior to the impending General Election on May 14, 2023. How should Thailand handle ASEAN policies?