Chamlong sues EC, wants July 3 election annulled

In his petition to the Supreme Court's Electoral Cases Division, Chamlong urged the court to annul the election and order the Election Commission (EC) to hold a new election. He also accused EC chairman Apichart Sukhagganond and the four other election commissioners of wrongfully applying certain provisions in the electoral law that resulted in more than 2 million eligible voters failing to cast absentee votes.

Chamlong had initially applied to the court on July 20 asking it to annul the July 3 election, but his petition was rejected on grounds that there was no law allowing an individual to seek invalidation of an election and for a new round of voting to be held.

Parnthep Puapongpan, spokesman for the yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy, said that Chamlong had decided to take his case to court again after reviewing relevant legal provisions.

"As a plaintiff, he is convinced that he has the constitutional right to file the case, otherwise ordinary people would have nowhere to turn to if they lose their right to cast votes," the spokesman said.