Published on January 17, 2005

Mahachon Party candidate Mullika Boonmeetrakul, running in this northern province’s constituency 3, said yesterday that she and her campaign crew had on several occasions been harassed by a group of people in the area.

Mullika told a press conference that she and her team were once followed by two pickup trucks without licence plates while they were travelling to Chiang Muan district to campaign. She said the trucks tried to run her off the road, forcing her to stop.

She added that another pickup truck once drove straight towards her election crew while they were setting up a stage for a campaign event as if the driver intended to hit them, before stopping and driving away.

Mullika said on another occasion a group of men, who claimed to be undercover police investigating possible vote buying, disrupted a rally Mullika was holding.

She said that some of her canvassers were called in to meet with an influential local politician who intimidated the canvassers into quitting the campaign.

With tears in her eyes, Mullika said she had also learnt that police were planning on searching her father’s home.

“My father is only a poor farmer and he has only a small farmer’s house. Why do you try to intimidate him?” she said.

She said she would seek help from the Royal Thai Police and the Election Commission.

The Nation

Phayao

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