Interior Ministry Denies Rigging in Local Official Exam Postponement
The Interior Ministry denied allegations of rigging after postponing a local official exam committee meeting, attributing the delay to incomplete review work that should finish soon.
On July 21, Deputy Interior Minister Worasit Liangprasert explained that the postponement of the Central Committee meeting was due to the Central Committee for Local Official Examination (GSTL) still completing its work, which is expected to finish soon. Since the work was not completed in time for the originally scheduled July 23 meeting, the committee decided to push back the gathering until the GSTL finishes its review and sets a new meeting date to present the matter to the Central Committee. When asked about public concerns that the postponement might signal a fix to sway results, Worasit firmly denied any wrongdoing, stating it is merely a timing issue while the examination process remains incomplete and that a new meeting date will be set once the GSTL finishes. He stressed that the delay would be brief and that factually nothing has changed, as verification data already shows over 5,000 candidates, with all examinations fully verifiable and no cause for concern.
