For constituency MPs, the EC will wait for the result of tomorrow's third round of elections and will endorse them the following day.

He said the EC had to comply with Article 159 of the Constitution, which stipulates the House must convene within 30 days of the April 2 election. The EC has one year to disqualify MPs who face allegations of electoral wrongdoing.

Vasana did not say what the commission would do if a consortium of courts decides to invalidate the April 2 election.

Eight of the 382 winners of constituency seats have yet to report to the House.

Meanwhile, some candidates running under the umbrella of small parties in Saturday's third round of elections in the South have been disqualified.

No Thai Rak Thai candidates, who have repeatedly failed to win the legally required 20-per-cent support from their constituencies, have been disqualified.

The Songkhla Election Commission (EC) yesterday disqualified a candidate from the Thai Farmer Party, because it did not have enough members to be defined by the constitution as a party.

Two candidates were also disqualified yesterday in Trang.

But Trang still has four candidates running in this round.

In Nakhon Si Thammarat, the EC disqualified two candidates yesterday.

In the first and second elections, Thai Rak Thai candidates, some running as the only candidate, failed to win 20 per cent of the vote, the minimum required to win the election.