Former PM Somchai moves on to the national level of Senate election

SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2024

Former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat passed the second round of voting in the provincial level of the Senate election in Chiang Mai province on Sunday to enter the national level stage on June 26.

In the second round of voting, in which candidates who passed the first round were required to cast a vote each to each professional group they did not belong to, Somchai won 10 votes.

The two top vote earners in each of 20 professional groups would move to the national level stage of the election.

Pol Lt-General Chatree Boonthawee was second in the same group with Somchai. Chatree got five votes.

Former PM Somchai moves on to the national level of Senate election

Somchai is a brother-in-law of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the patriarch of the ruling Pheu Thai Party.