Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Over 20 Cambodian political parties to join general election in 2008

September 05, 2007

There will be over 20 political parties of Cambodia to join the general election to be held in July 2008, local media reported Wednesday.

"Over 20 of all 46 political parties which officially registered at the Interior Ministry will join the general election in 2008," Tep Nitha, Secretary General of the National Election Committee (NEC) was quoted by the Koh Santepheab newspaper as saying.

The names of 650,000 voters will be omitted from the voters' list because some of them had double names, died or changed their addresses, he said.

"We are trying to clean the voters' list for general election in 2008," he added.

According to an NEC report, over 7.8 million of all 14 million Cambodian people have rights to vote in the commune council election in 2007.

Source: Xinhua

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