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Suthipol: EC alone will decide on VCD case

(BangkokPost.com) – Suthipol Thaweechaikan, secretary-general of the Election Commission, has stressed that it is up to the EC to determine whether electoral violation occurred when VCDs containing a message from ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra... ...full story at Bangkok Post

from Bangkok Post on Tue, Dec 11 2007

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