Volume 128, Issue 13A
Royal Gazette
4 March 2554
(2)a name on the list must not correspond to that on the list produced by another political party and must not correspond to the name of a candidate on a constituency basis according to section 94; and
(3)the names shall be arranged in order of their numbers.
Section98.In calculating the proportion of candidates on the list of each political party who are to be elected, the votes obtained from the whole Country by each political party shall be summed up and calculated in order to divide the number of the persons to be elected from each political party into the proportion directly in relation to the aforesaid number of the summed up votes. In this respect, the candidates named on the list of each political party shall, in order of their numbers on the list of the political party, be respectively elected in accordance with the standard score thus calculated. However, this shall be subject to the criteria and procedure provided in the Organic Act on Election of Members of the House of Representatives and Procurement of Senators.
The provisions of section 94, paragraph 6, shall also apply mutatis mutandis to the counting of votes in elections of Members of the House of Representatives on a party-list basis. In this respect, the Election Commission may require that there be the preliminary summing up of votes at provinces first."
Section4.(5) of section 101 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand shall be repealed.
Section5.The stipulations of (2) of section 109 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
"(2)in the case that it is a position of Member of the House of Representatives elected on a party-list basis, the President of the House of Representatives shall announce, by publication in the Royal Gazette within seven days counted from the day the said position becomes vacant, that the person whose name is next in order on the list of that political party be elevated as a Member of the House of Representatives to fill the vacant position, save where there is no name left on the list to be elevated to fill the vacant position, [in which case] the party-list Members of the House of Representatives shall be only composed of those existing".
Section6.Subject to section 7, in the initial period, the provisions of section 93, section 94, section 95, section 96, section 97, section 98, section 101(5), and section 109(2) of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand as amended by this Constitution shall not be applicable to elections of Members of the House of Representatives until the day of coming into force of the royal decree requiring a general election of Members of the House of Representatives to be held for the first time after promulgation of this Constitution.
