New constitutionally mandated independent government institutions were created to help fight problems with corruption and vote

buying. These new institutions included the Election Commission (EC) which would monitor all elections for election fraud, the National

Counter-Corruption Commission (NCCC) which would be responsible for investigating and prosecuting corruption petitions, and the Constitution Court, which would be used to conduct rulings on the constitutionality of actions or laws.16 These new institutions added what Larry Diamond and Leonardo Morlino call horizontal accountability. 17 However, despite these institutions attempting to do the jobs for which they were intended, they themselves have been accused of being overly accommodating toward particular political elites and of being subjective in who they chose to investigate and which elections they validate. The selection of members into these commissions are also claimed to have become partisan and political.11

16 Kitti Prasirtsuk, From Political Reform and Economic Crisis to Coup dtat in Thailand: The Twists and Turns of the Political Economy, 1997-2006, Asian Survey 47, no. 6 (2007), 880. 17 Larry Diamond, Leonardo Morlino, An Overview, Journal of Democracy 15 no. 4 (2004), 24. 18 Freedman, Political Change and Consolidation: Democracys Rocky Road in Indonesia, South Korea, and Malaysia, 55.