The Election Commission (EC) met on Monday to review the last batch of election-related complaints before it endorses at least 95%, or 333, constituency MPs on Tuesday, according to an informed source.
Political parties were watching closely to see if the EC would disqualify any winning candidates or revoke the status of any election candidates as the move should affect the calculation of party-list seats.
So far, Surapol Kietchaiyakorn, a Pheu Thai candidate in Chiang Mai's Constituency 8, is the only winning candidate to have been disqualified by the EC for breaking the election campaign regulations.
A total of 17 election candidates have seen their status revoked. The votes they received were not used to calculate the party-list seats.
The results are expected to announced tomorrow.
The EC is required by law to endorse the MPs' names by Thursday. However, winning candidates can be disqualified later if the EC finds any were guilty of violating the law.
The source revealed that the EC did not discuss the case against Future Forward Party (FFP) leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit during Monday's meeting.
Mr Thanathorn was accused of failing to transfer his shares in a media company prior to applying to run in the general election. This could constitute a breach of Section 98 (3) of the constitution, which bars owners or shareholders of media and/or publishing companies from applying to be MPs.
Pundits expect the EC to endorse Mr Thanathorn's status as a party-list MP. If he is found to have violated the regulation, the EC will forward its decision to the Constitutional Court to revoke his status.
In a related development, Ruangkrai Leekitwattana, a former member of the already-dissolved Thai Raksa Chart Party, urged the EC on Monday not to announce the poll outcome until the court rules on the constitutionality of the EC's formula for calculating and distributing party-list seats.
He said the EC still has more complaints involving the qualifications of election candidates to consider, so the agency check everything carefully before endorsing the winners.
Mr Ruangkrai said he would petition the EC today to look into the share-holdings of 10 other election candidates, and ask it to delay announcing the election results accordingly.
