Original report from Phnom Penh
17/05/2007
NGOs and opposition officials met Thursday to discuss lessons from April's local election, seeking ways to curb voter intimidation and ensure regulations are closely followed in the 2008 national elections.
Opposition lawmakers said the Cambodian People's Party had intimidated voters by threatening to take away benefits if the party lost the elections. The CPP won an overwhelming majority of commune chief seats in this year's election.
CPP officials say they won fairly, but opposition and smaller parties have complained the election's run-up and polling day were unfair.
"I'll give an example," SRP lawmaker Kuoy Bun Roeun told VOA Khmer. "It was said that if the ruling party did not win, meaning it lost the election, tens of thousands of projects would be cancelled, and Cambodia might face insecurity. This is pressure on voters that makes it difficult for them to make a decision at their will."
Opposition lawmakers said the Cambodian People's Party had intimidated voters by threatening to take away benefits if the party lost the elections. The CPP won an overwhelming majority of commune chief seats in this year's election.
CPP officials say they won fairly, but opposition and smaller parties have complained the election's run-up and polling day were unfair.
"I'll give an example," SRP lawmaker Kuoy Bun Roeun told VOA Khmer. "It was said that if the ruling party did not win, meaning it lost the election, tens of thousands of projects would be cancelled, and Cambodia might face insecurity. This is pressure on voters that makes it difficult for them to make a decision at their will."
3 comments:
We, Cambodians, are very ashamed to have an uneducated prime minister like ah Hun Sen
Reporters have rights to ask any question to high-rank officials, either prime minister, in the world.
If ah Hun Sen (Kbal youn khloun Sat') told RFA reporters are insolent, so ah Hun Sen is very ILL-BRED and uneducated barbarian person
Stop whinning! In this world there
are people like Einstein, Galeleo,
Hun Sen, who teached things to
the school, and the school, in
turn, teached to idiot like you.
Do you get the picture?
Excuse me.
Einstein is genuis and Hun Kvak is a trash collector. How much do you get paid to elevate teh trash collector like Hun Sen to be that high?
A trash collector, and a Yuan paper toilet will never get anywhere higher than a Yuan toilet paper. Stop bragging, b'c Hun Sen gives you $$. Go and get a job.
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