The Election Commission’s Office has come up with a method for sharing remaining party-list seats, after the distribution of 100 party-list seats based on the number of party-list votes received by each party nationwide.
After the calculation of how many seats each party will get, each party still has votes which do not meet the amount required to qualify for one of the remaining seats.
To solve this problem, the EC has decided that the party which as the largest number of remaining votes will get an extra party-list seat then the other parties, which get fewer remaining votes, will get an extra seat until all the 100 seats are filled.
In case two parties have an equal number of remaining votes, the extra seat will be decided by drawing lots.
Meanwhile, Thawi Watthana district chief officer Dicha Kongsri explained today (Monday) that the campaign posters of one political party, which were collected by district officials, were put up in areas banned by the district and that their removal was not an act of political discrimination.
He said that the posters were collected from a road running parallel to Khlong Thawi Watthana and Aksa Road, which were declared off-limits to campaign posters by the district office.
He said that the district office has already publically announced the ban, but the party or its candidates in question might not have been aware of the restriction.
