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The National Election Committee (NEC) rejected the demand made by the Sam Rainsy Party to organize new election of the Poipet commune in Banteay Meanchey province. Tep Nytha, the NEC secretary-general, told RFA that the complaint demanding new election by the SRP is against the law prescribed by the NEC, that is why the NEC is rejecting the complaint. Kim Sou Phearith, SRP MP from Banteay Meanchey, said that the reason SRP demands for holding new election is because of the low election turnout, less than 30%, and that this situation is unacceptable because the current vote results do not reflect the will of the people in a democratic society.
It is hardly convincing when tbe National Election Committee (NEC) has itself prescribed a law and enforce it, and then rejects complaints against that law or against its action. It is a case of it being a party and a judge at the same time. I would be better if a third, independent body such as a court were to adjudicate the case. Perhaps the election law needs to be amended to created such an independent body or leave to the court to adjudicate election conflicts.
ReplyDeleteBut them members of the ruling elite or their supporters might say "this is srok khmer" or "this is Cambodia" where one can be aparty and a judge at the same time.
Anyway, this might just be food for thought.
LAO Mong Hay,
Rationally belong to the Elite observer. No matter how much the opposition fight they are doom to the business world unless he or she teach the each man how to be self intellect.
ReplyDeleteDr. Lao, how would the west handle
ReplyDeletethis situation?
Mr.1:58AM,
ReplyDeleteIf we have common sense, and all do, there is no need to refer ourselves any model. In our folks stories when people having disputes between themselves they would go to a third person, normally a "judge". If the parties disagre with the decision of that judge, that judge would take them to the king for final appea. Because of the king's wisdom, his decision is accepted by both parties. Read such folks stories in one of the volumes of a 9-volume compilation of Khmer folks stories. These stories books are available at good bookshops in Phnom Penh. A lot of Khmer wisdom is in those stories. Read also the story of Our Uncle (Mea Yoeung).
Our Khmer ancesters' wisdom is lost because we don't read the stories they wrote and left for their descendants.
We need to develop a reading habit as well.
Howe many books including Khmer books have you read last week, last month, last year?
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong.
Agreed, I am a fan of a lot of
ReplyDeletethose good moral stories. These
days, people are so busy to make a
living that they have no time to
read it to their children.
I proposed we madated our school
to teach this moral education to
our kids early on. If in case they
can't complete high education. At
least, it will keep most of them
from becoming greedy evil.
As for the NEC, they are the judge,
but they are not the law. So, all
we have to do is to change the law.
However, the draw back in democracy
is everything that you want to do,
you will have to cut throught your
opposition, and it is slow as hell.
That is why, at this point, I
preferred a good dictator instead.
I don't have to have Lee Kwan Yew,
but anyone like Somdach Euv will do
fine, hehehe.
Mr.10:37AM
ReplyDeleteHave we not suffered enough from one dictator after another? As to Singapore, I've been there working for two years. The British transformed a fishing village into a city state and laid down firmly the rule of law and british justice. Lee Kwan Yu used his power to stamp out material corruption and moral corruption. He went around government offices and would check himself whether government officials were working or not. These officials talked together, he would ask whether there were takling about their work or about something else. He told at least one close colleague to resign from the government when the marriage of this colleague was broken: "if you cannot even govern you family, how can you govern a state?", he asked his colleague. Lee Kwan Yu introduced compulsory savings for all workers and employees, 25 per cent of their salaries. But he used those savings to building public housing estates and then rented appartments cheap to poor people. At each housing estate all the basic needs of people are there: market, health clinic (private), sports ground, park, public transport, cinema, etc...
Still a substantial numbeer of Singaporeans (some 40%) do not support the Lee Kwan Yu regime. They find the social atmosphere suffocating and those who can afford it, they travel abroad "to breathe". I did not like it either. Singapore is intellectually suffocating. It sends its students to western universities and invite western professors to teach its students to acquire knowledge and to develop their intellectual faculties.
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
Well, even 40% dissaproved of his
ReplyDeleteplant and vision for singapore, it
doesn't mean much in democracy,
Dr. Lao.
What is more important to
note here is when the UK
pulled out, Singapore did not
fail as some of S. Africa nations
did, and I don't take that for
granted, considering how
vulnerable a power transfer could
be. And that goes for Hong Kong
as well.
I tell you, if Cambodia ever have
a successful Power transfer
between Khmers, just thank God for
such a miracle.