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"The Election Commission yesterday disqualified the Democrats' Samut Prakan MP-elect Soracha Weerachart-wattana for vote-buying. EC secretary-general Suthiphon Thaveechaiygarn said the EC agreed unanimously to disqualify Soracha for distributing money along with name cards. It would take criminal action against her and Chinnachote (or Pratueng) Saengsank for violating voting laws.

The EC planned to hold Soracha responsible for a new by-election, he said. The EC would have a committee from the Council of State consider the report, but it had the right to insist on its decision, he said.

Soracha said she had not acknowledged the case before. "I never buy votes," she said. Chinnachote was all along an election competitor, not a supporter. They had never walked together but only met at public events, she said. "I have no clue why I am linked with Chinnachote," she said. Chinnachote represented Chart Thai as an MP candidate for the province.

Soracha had been the Democrats' pride by winning elections in Samut Prakan over many years. But her road to Parliament was not rosy. Just a few days before the January 11 by-election, the Supreme Court ruled that electoral officials had mistakenly disqualified Soracha due to a technical glitch in its database for party membership.

Soracha is the first Democrat to receive a red card from the December 23 election."

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