Senatorial election in Thailand kicked off on Sunday morning around 76 provinces nationwide.
Each province will have one elected senator, together with 74 appointed others to fill the 150-seat Senate (or Upper House).
About 500 candidates around the country, over 30 of them in the capital Bangkok, have registered to run in the senatorial election.
The 74 appointees, who have been selected by an appointed seven-member panel under Election Commission (EC) earlier this month, and the 76 electees will form the first Senate under the new 2007 Constitution, which was drafted by a junta-appointed committee and passed a national referendum last August after a military coup ousted the former government led by Thaksin Shinawatra in September, 2006 and abolished the 1997 Constitution.
Under the new Constitution, a senator serves for a six-year term.
Source:Xinhua
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