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Published on December 23, 2007

Puea Pandin's Juthamas Siriwan was a party-list candidate for Zone 6, covering Bangkok, Samut Prakan and Nonthaburi, and People Power candidate Prasaeng Mongkolsiri was contesting the direct election in Uthai Thani.

Both resigned their party memberships last week.

Juthamas resigned after facing bribery allegations in connection with the Bangkok International Film Festival in 2003, when she was Tourism Authority of Thailand governor.

Prasaeng quit following an investigation into campaign violations associated with the distribution of video discs featuring former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is banned from the electoral process for five years. Electoral rules stipulate that ballot numbers assigned to disqualified candidates will be cancelled, and votes cast for those candidates will be invalid.

The commission will advertise the disqualifications at polling stations in the candidates' respective electorates.

Votes cast for Puea Pandin in Zone 6 will be allocated to the party's nine other candidates for election by proportional representation.