Majority of clubs demand TFA poll
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Annop Singtothong, vice president of Thai Premier League club Chon Buri FC, has cranked up pressure on the Football Association of Thailand by submitting a letter backed by 108 member clubs demanding that the pending presidential election be held.
The Thai FA has so far been unable to stage the election, after incumbent Worawi Makudi’s third consecutive two-year came to an end last month.
FA statutes state that the poll must be held within 30 days of the incumbent’s mandate expiring. However, the association must first revise its regulations and seek approval for the revision from Fifa.
The FA’s initial bid to vote on revised regulations at a meeting on June was derailed by a lawsuit brought by Pattaya FC. It has yet to set a new date for the vote.
Yesterday, Annop, an outspoken critic of Worawi, heaped pressure on the FA by submitting a letter backed by 108 of the association’s 179 member clubs demanding that the election be held.
The 108 clubs easily meet the one-third majority of members FA rules stipulate are needed to trigger an “extraordinary congress” to vote for a new president within 21 days of the incumbent’s mandate expiring.
“It seems unlikely that there will be an election within the period stipulated by the rules. So we managed to gather the support of 108 member clubs, which is more than required by the rules to ask the association to hold the election.
“The figure we got is more than half of the FA’s 179 members. It shows that the majority do not approve of the management under the current regime.
“According to the FA’s current rules, the association must conduct the poll within 21 days, or by July 23, of receiving a letter from us. Failing to do so would reflect its ill intentions, which would force us to file a suit against it with the administrative court,” said Annop.
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