Ministry of Foreign Affairs 23 Mar.- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Get ready for Thai people abroad to exercise their right to vote for MPs, ready to use the real-time system. follow up ballot Confident that it will not repeat 4 years ago
Mrs. Kanchana Patarachok, Director-General of the Department of Information and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Announcing the preparation for the election of members of the House of Representatives outside the Kingdom that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by embassies and consulates Preparing to hold elections outside the Kingdom Which will announce the voting place, date, time and place of voting on March 29, due to the law. that embassies and consulates must hold elections outside the Kingdom At least 7 days before domestic elections, it is expected that Thai people abroad will be able to register to vote by the end of this month. Initially, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs set up a committee to supervise elections outside the Kingdom. The Director-General of the Department of Consular Affairs is the chairman of the committee. also have a meeting Discuss rules, equipment, budgets, personnel with all relevant agencies closely.
Mrs. Kanchana also said that this election the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Establish a real-time Oversea Voting Monitoring System or OVMS to monitor elections outside the Kingdom. since the training exercise of rights including sending diplomatic bags which the ministry is confident that elections outside the kingdom will be smooth, transparent, and the real-time system used by the ministry will not cause problems with missing cards like 4 years ago. Countries registered to vote because of the past Thai people often do not register to use their rights.
“Number of Thai people living abroad with the number of Thai people who have the right to vote And the number of Thai people who registered to exercise their right to vote is very different. Many people have a lot of Thai people. but not registered to exercise the right to vote Managing elections outside the Kingdom is not easy. therefore asking Thai people to register to use their rights, sometimes in the thousands of Thai people But the registered people are in the thousands,” Ms. Kanjana said.
As for the election date, it depends on each embassy. Consulates will determine the conditions of each country. Currently, there is no embassy requesting vote counting outside the Kingdom to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Because it is considered too fast.-Thai News Agency
Source: Thai News Agency