EC to ask Constitutional Court tomorrow to rule on delay of Feb 2 election
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Election Commission will tomorrow ask the Constitutional Court to rule the government or the EC has authority to delay the February 2 snap election.
EC's legal advisor Somkid Lertpaibul said majority of the EC's advisory panel have agreed that the Constitutional Court should to be consulted to settle the conflict in which the EC favoured the postponement of the snap election while the caretaker government claimed it has no authority to decide on the matter.
The EC will submit the request on Wednesday, he said.
The EC's proposed delay based on the fact that 28 constitutencies could not hold the election, therefore, the number of elected MPs will not meet the requirement of 95 per cent to convene the first Parliamentary meeting.
Somkid said that the EC did not want to waste a budget of Bt3.8 billion in organising the election.
