Raksakecha Chaechai, the Ombudsman Office's secretary-general, said on Tuesday that the office had accepted the petition last Wednesday. Mr Raksakecha said the office had given the poll agency seven days to clear doubts raised by the petitioner. But there were actually 86 ballot papers left, with 180 missing, Mr Treerat said. "It was possible that someone took the ballots out of the polling station. Mr Treerat came second with 23,912, followed by Nicha Boonlue of the Future Forward Party (23,707).

Source: Bangkok Post April 23, 2019 23:26 UTC