24-hour booze ban this weekend as (some) Thais cast ballots

Stock up, alkies living outside Bangkok. The authorities have imposed a booze ban this weekend as local elections take place in all 76 provinces. 

After a six-year hiatus, local community and provincial elections will take place Sunday in all provinces (not Bangkok, which is a special admin region). Convinced that voting is best done sober, the Election Commission announced on Monday the prohibition of alcohol sales from 6pm on Saturday until 6pm on Election Day. 

Those who violate the ban by selling, distributing or providing alcohol during that time face up to a THB10,000 fine and six-month jail sentence. 

Although it wasn’t not specified at yesterday’s news conference, it is expected that the capital will be exempt from the ban as no elections will take place there.

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