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Wednesday 31 July 2013

Cambodia Opposition Gathers Evidence to Contest Election

Sam Rainsy, president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, addressing reporters at party headquarters, Phnom Penh, July 29, 2013.
Sam Rainsy, president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, addressing reporters at party headquarters, Phnom Penh, July 29, 2013.
VOA News
Cambodia’s opposition party will meet with its supporters Wednesday to gather evidence of election irregularities, following major apparent gains in elections Sunday.

Sam Rainsy, leader of the Cambodian National Rescue Party, says his party is now seeking evidence to bolster its claims for national and international observers.

“This is to show to the national and international observers to be able to see clearly that there are many victims who lost their voting rights. They wanted to vote but were not able to do so because their names were stolen or left out in a trick to prevent majority of the Cambodian people from voting."

Rainsy told VOA's Khmer service on Monday that as many as 1.2 million voter names had been removed from the national registry, while 200,000 names on it were duplicates.
Reuters reports that Ouch Borith, secretary of state at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, has rejected calls for an international inquiry and called on the opposition to clearly show what evidence it has.

The ruling Cambodian People's Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen has said it won a majority of 68 seats in the election, a major decline from the 90 seats it hold in the outgoing parliament. On Tuesday, the party said it would maintain Hun Sen as Prime Minister.

The U.S. and EU have both expressed concern over voting alleged irregularities in Sunday's vote.

The U.S. has called for a "transparent and full investigation of all credible reports of irregularities."

Meanwhile, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton notes the NEC did not take all measures recommended by the EU to address "shortcomings" in the election process, "such as improving the reliability of the voter list, ensuring equitable access to media and preventing the use of State resources, including campaigning by civil servants and the military."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

INT'L OBSEVER HAS RECOGNIZED THE RESULT OF ELECTION:

68=CPP
55=VNRP

Anonymous said...

2:57 pm

Only your mouth has reconnized the election result !!!

Anonymous said...

Thailand prime minister also accept the result from the cpp and congratulated hun sen.