The Route of Election Commission’s Power: Looking through 3 versions of Thai constitution regarding the case of ordering a re-election and withdrawing the right of election.

Abstract

Almost 20 years since the Election Commission (EC) has been established by the 2007 Constitution, its seriously criticized roles are to require a new election or "yellow card" and to revoke the right of election or "red card."

This paper tried to point out these roles of EC under 3 versions of permanent constitutions, 1997, 2007 and 2017 of Thai Constitution, which the power of the Election Commission were lessened respectively. In present, EC still has powers to order a new election and derogate the right of the election candidacy for a temporality. Although EC can use these authorities only prior to an announcement of the result of an election, this conditions had blocked the judicial procedure to examine the EC's using of its power and authority.