BMA Limits Senate Campaigning

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has limited the arrangement of Senate candidate beat posters to certain public areas to avoid causing traffic problems and cluttering the place's streets. The zoning angle, which covers all 50 Bangkok districts, further restricts the 35 candidates vying for the important's sole Senate seat to'' one bill character one area'', oral Yossak Kongmak, director of the BMA's department of administration and registration.

The 2008 senate poll, to represent responsible on March 2, obliges the candidates to admit adumbrate the just rules.

Election Commission regulations again state that posters committal appear as no larger than 42 centimetres colossal and 30 centimetres wide. Apartment Hall extended the regulations by oblique public areas direction posters cannot act for displayed.

Among the banned areas are anywhere within a 10-metre range of a bus blank wall, trees and electricity poles along traffic islands, walls of state offices, pedestrian bridges and flyovers, telephone booths, pillar boxes, roundabouts and public parks. Campaign posters are also prohibited in royal areas such as Ratchadamnoen Avenue and areas near Chitralada Palace, the Grand Palace, Sanam Luang, and the Royal Plaza.

Mr Yossak said all campaign posters must be taken down within three days of the March 2 election.

A total of 35 candidates, including household names like consumer activist Rosana Tositrakul and Nitipong Honark, a leading song writer and an executive director of music giant GMM Grammy Plc, will compete for Bangkok's single seat in the Senate.

Under the constitution, the Senate will consist of 150 members, 76 elected from provinces across the country and the rest appointed.

February 02, 2008