The balloting rates of Cambodian voters have seen gradual decease in the past years due to political disappointment and ignorance, Chinese-language newspaper the Sin Chew Daily reported on Thursday.
The balloting rates of registered voters stood at 95 percent in the 1993 general election, 93 percent in the 1998 general election, 86 percent in the 2002 commune councils election and 81 percent in the 2003 general election, the paper quoted election-supervising organization COMFREL as saying.
Less and less Cambodians went to streets for voting, because the government and some political parties couldn't live up to their promises made during the election and the mass people's living quality was rarely improved after the elections, said COMFREL.
In addition, there were also some voters who couldn't afford to return home to cast their ballots and some young voters refused to vote because they knew little about the importance of the political process, it said.
People should understand that reform takes time and change is not easy to come, it added.
COMFREL made these remarks as 102,266 candidates from 12 political parties have been campaigning for 11,353 seats in 1,621 communes nationwide, during Cambodia's second ever commune councils election.
Altogether 7,799,371 registered voters are expected to cast their ballots on April 1 and official announcement of the results will be made on April 24.
Source: Xinhua
The balloting rates of registered voters stood at 95 percent in the 1993 general election, 93 percent in the 1998 general election, 86 percent in the 2002 commune councils election and 81 percent in the 2003 general election, the paper quoted election-supervising organization COMFREL as saying.
Less and less Cambodians went to streets for voting, because the government and some political parties couldn't live up to their promises made during the election and the mass people's living quality was rarely improved after the elections, said COMFREL.
In addition, there were also some voters who couldn't afford to return home to cast their ballots and some young voters refused to vote because they knew little about the importance of the political process, it said.
People should understand that reform takes time and change is not easy to come, it added.
COMFREL made these remarks as 102,266 candidates from 12 political parties have been campaigning for 11,353 seats in 1,621 communes nationwide, during Cambodia's second ever commune councils election.
Altogether 7,799,371 registered voters are expected to cast their ballots on April 1 and official announcement of the results will be made on April 24.
Source: Xinhua
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OK WANT US TO VOTE, GIVE US SOME GIFT AND VOTE FOR WHAT YOU WANT, HELL TO FAKE DEMOCRACY!
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