More than 90 Election Committee of Thailand staffers
visited Pattaya City Hall to study the city’s management process as part
of training course for mid-level officials.
Uthin Suthisan, director of training for the ECT, and
course instructor Police Lt. Col. Preecha Namuangrak, escorted the
staffers from 72 provinces to city hall Aug. 31.
He explained the commission wants to develop and
widen the experience of its staff and commissioned the course with the
Political and Electoral Development Institute. The training revolves
around students visiting organizations to learn and implement ideas
within their own organizations.
This year, the institute has organized trips to five
jurisdictions in Pattaya and Rayong. Pattaya, organized as its own
administrative organization, is a special case study, he said.
“Pattaya’s management is different from other states
because its mayor is elected by residents and this evidently expresses
that Pattaya City uses democracy in its management, a productive point
that can be modified to be implemented in organizations by listening to
the suggestions of others,” Uthin said.
