BANGKOK, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Office of the Ombudsman decided to call on the Constitutional Court to judge whether or not the organic law on the election of MPs contradicts the constitution, amid ongoing controversy over the counting formula of party-list MP seats.
Office of the Ombudsman Secretary General Raksakecha Chaechai said the agency reached a unanimous resolution on Friday to file a petition for the Constitutional Court to rule on the alleged contradiction between the organic law's Article 128 and the constitution's Article 91 which has raised controversy over the Election Commission's counting formula for party-list MP seats.
The petition will be submitted to the Constitutional Court within next Monday, he said.
The latest move was made after the Constitutional Court rejected the Election Commission's call for it to rule on the matter.
The Election Commission has so far failed to announce the number of party-list MP seats for each party contesting the March 24 election, pending conclusion on the controversial counting formula.
There has been criticisms that the polling agency planned to give one MP seat for each of a dozen splinter parties, though they gained less than 71,000 votes each from the nationwide polls.
That number derives from the total of votes cast for each contestant party divided by 500, which is the total of MP seats in the parliament, including 350 seats for constituency-based MPs and 150 seats for party-list MPs.
