Cambodia's CPP wins 98% of commune chief positions in election
(Kyodo) - The ruling Cambodian People's Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen has won 98 percent commune chief positions in the second local elections in Cambodia's 1,621 communes, according to official results released Tuesday by the National Election Committee.
The CPP won 1,591 of 1,621 commune chief positions up for grabs while the opposition Sam Rainsy Party won 28 commune posts and the royalist FUNCINPEC party won 2, according to the results.
Voter turnout was 68 percent, lower than any of the four other national-level and communal polls held since 1993, which all had a turnout of at least 80 percent.
The CPP has ruled the country since 1979, and it grabbed all commune position chiefs until the first-ever communal election that was held in 2002.
Even though the CPP won more votes -- some 3.1 million compared with 2.67 million in the 2002 election -- the SRP said it was happy to have collected 1.3 million votes compared with only 730,000 in the last election.
With the 5.2 million votes cast, the CPP won 60.81 percent of the total vote and the SRP 25.18 percent, while the rest went to the Norodom Ranariddh Party and the FUNCINPEC party.
The results indicate a "significant change" in Cambodia's political geography, namely that it is now "only a two-party race: the CPP and the SRP," said Sam Rainsy, leader of the SRP.
The second local elections were held peacefully despite some reports of intimidation, threats and vote buying that had been raised prior to voting day.
More than 7 million Cambodians had registered to vote in the elections to choose new councils to administer the country's communes. As many as 102,266 candidates, including 21,840 women, stood for election from 12 parties.
The councils to be chosen will have a five-year mandate and consist of five to 11 councilors, depending on the demographic and geographic situations of the individual communes.
In the first local election in 2002, the CPP won 1,597 of 1,621 commune chief positions up for grabs, while the SRP won 13, FUNCINPEC got 10 and the Khmer Democratic Party got one.
About half of the $13 million budgeted for the latest election was received from foreign donors.
The CPP won 1,591 of 1,621 commune chief positions up for grabs while the opposition Sam Rainsy Party won 28 commune posts and the royalist FUNCINPEC party won 2, according to the results.
Voter turnout was 68 percent, lower than any of the four other national-level and communal polls held since 1993, which all had a turnout of at least 80 percent.
The CPP has ruled the country since 1979, and it grabbed all commune position chiefs until the first-ever communal election that was held in 2002.
Even though the CPP won more votes -- some 3.1 million compared with 2.67 million in the 2002 election -- the SRP said it was happy to have collected 1.3 million votes compared with only 730,000 in the last election.
With the 5.2 million votes cast, the CPP won 60.81 percent of the total vote and the SRP 25.18 percent, while the rest went to the Norodom Ranariddh Party and the FUNCINPEC party.
The results indicate a "significant change" in Cambodia's political geography, namely that it is now "only a two-party race: the CPP and the SRP," said Sam Rainsy, leader of the SRP.
The second local elections were held peacefully despite some reports of intimidation, threats and vote buying that had been raised prior to voting day.
More than 7 million Cambodians had registered to vote in the elections to choose new councils to administer the country's communes. As many as 102,266 candidates, including 21,840 women, stood for election from 12 parties.
The councils to be chosen will have a five-year mandate and consist of five to 11 councilors, depending on the demographic and geographic situations of the individual communes.
In the first local election in 2002, the CPP won 1,597 of 1,621 commune chief positions up for grabs, while the SRP won 13, FUNCINPEC got 10 and the Khmer Democratic Party got one.
About half of the $13 million budgeted for the latest election was received from foreign donors.
12 comments:
Who care? I will chose Phnom Penh
over Bagdad any time whitout
thinking about it.
Who the hell will want to live
with suicide bombers and kinappers?
Fuck that voting scheme. Cambodian should know by now and learns by now that voting is giving away your freedom. Look at it you vote Hun Sen and his cronies get more money while you eat dirt. How about try not to vote and see what happen. Your vote is your power so say FUCK the CPP and Yuon. Keep your vote at home and enjoy the freedom.
8:28 AM you do live with kidnappers.
The CPP, through the NEC tricky Machine, has done everything to cheat, harass, obstruct, intimidate and blackmail non-CPP supporters from voting,ensuring them a "land slide victory". History will tell the truth for the young generation.
It 's true for the whole Country. In the Communes where people didn't vote for the CPP,the Hun Sen Government didn't build roads, irriguation system or schools.It's a real blackmail. So poor people are just the CPP hostages.
I still preferred Cambodia over
Iraq. You going to have to come
up with a better offer, whimps!
If we want Cambodia to change, we must all of us to change as well. Many of us know only how to complain others but when they have their turn in power, have fully forgetten the suffer of others and keep quiet to enjoy all the abuses.
In most democratic society, National Institution of democracy is a very strong Institution and none dare to abuse this institution. But in Cambodia, it is different because in this Institution, there are very few accademic have involved. The majority of the members are people without credibility and integrity. Therefore Hun Sen has no respect on this Institution.
Now, just let forget about this Institution, we must concentrate about the Newly elected commune leaders regardless from CPP or from Sam Rainsy Party. we must encourage them to work through their conscience rather under the pressure from CPP. They have been democratically elected by people, therefore they have the same mendate as Hun Sen. We must encourage them to work without worrying Hun Sen and all CPP leaders. Hun Sen cannot remove nor thread them at any kind. Any attemp to use force to thread them is a coup d'etat. We must help to enforce their local power as a mendate given to them by the people and not by Hun Sen. If these just under of 2000 commune leaders understand their mendate, the spread of democracy with be fast and the Dictatorship will be collapsed from local level and then the top also.
yes, I agree that the change begin from ourselve before we change someone and something elses.
11:11 AM the only wimps are those who work with crooks. That is what wimps really are because they can't find but only sell pussy.
to kimedia and digusting gringos!
boring with your backing...
just be sportmanship or animalship!
animal does not have a brain... if you have a human brain just use it more conscioulsy!
a friendly advice!
TO 7:06 PM I am Human so what are you dog talking about. LOL
To know the enemy act like the enemy. Fuck you bro, this is what I call it animals-hip to animal-ship. LMAO
Man you are one tally loser I have ever known, but keep it coming cos you're going down. lol
Bravo, you start changing yourselves while Hun Sen and his government officials and their maffiosis keep robbing state budget and state property!.
Yes I agree. You are noe proposing positive changes. You are just condoning the Dictatorship and the maffia state.
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