Election in Trang cancelled

Election in Trang cancelled

The election has been cancelled in Trang province because voting ballots have not been delivered to any of the area's four constituencies.

Saneh Rakrong, election director for Trang, said none of the four constituencies had received voting ballots supposed to have been sent to them by the central office of the Election Commission as of 8am.

Therefore, polls across the entire province had to be cancelled, he said.

Anti-election protesters in the South have been blocking the delivery of voting ballots at post offices in the region.

Trang has 473,371 eligible voters and 889 polling units in four constituencies.

Provincial police chief Pol Maj Gen Jirawat Udomsuk said 1,500 police had been on stand-by to provide security at today's election. Since voting had been cancelled, they have been withdrawn to provincial police headquarters, he said.


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