Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Sonthi Boonyaratglin called on Thai workers in Singapore on Sunday to vote for good politicians who do not buy votes and who are loyal to the Royal Family in the upcoming election, Thai media reported.
Sonthi, who heads an anti-vote-buying government panel, was speaking to a group of Thai workers in the East Coast area in Singapore's part of his campaign against vote buying, Bangkok-based news network The Nation reported Sunday.
Sonthi said over 6,600 of Thai workers in Singapore have registered to cast vote in advance as expatriates.
About 20,000 Thais are working legally in the city-state and the Thais in Singapore made the biggest group of Thai expatriates to register to cast vote in advance for the election set on Dec. 23, according to Sonthi.
About 70,000 Thai expatriates in 65 countries have registered to vote in advance.
The vote casting for expatriates, which began from Dec. 3, will conclude on Dec. 16 and their ballots will reach Thailand on Dec. 18, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Sunday.
Sonthi told the workers that they should vote for good and honest politicians who are also loyal to the Royal Family because there were ongoing attempts to discredit the "institution we love."
Thailand has been run under a constitutional monarchy since 1932, transformed from a monarchy. The current King Bhumibol Adulyadej has been in reign for over 60 years and highly revered in the kingdom.
Sonthi was the leading general that staged a military coup on Sept. 19 last year to topple the government led by then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, accusing the latter of harboring rampant corruption, causing social division and threatening the monarchy institution.
Source:Xinhua
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