BANGKOK, 2 February 2014, Mr.Somchai Srisuthiyakorn, Chief of the Election Commission (EC) stated that the term of duty for elected senators will end on March 1, 2014, thus the EC will be staging a corresponding senatorial election on March 29, 2014.
In addition, with regard to the House Representatives election held today (February 2, 2014), 83,669 out of 93,952 polling stations were able to proceed with the election process, and no election was held in 10,283 polling stations. As a result, around 8 million voters were affected and could not cast their votes. The EC would now need to speedily organize a reelection in order to complete the process and fill in the vacancies.
