PHNOM PENH (Thomson Financial) - Cambodians will go to the polls on July 27 for a general election in which more than 8 million people are expected to cast their vote, an election commission official said Monday.
Incumbent Prime Minster Hun Sen -- the longest-serving elected premier in Southeast Asia, with 23 years in power -- and his ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) are widely expected to win the poll.
Tep Nitha, secretary-general of the National Election Committee (NEC), said that 8,124,391 people had registered to vote before the February deadline.
The last general election, in July 2003 saw the kingdom plunged into a year of political stalemate as parties wrangled over forming a coalition. A government was finally formed in July 2004.
Cambodia has 57 political parties, including the CPP; its coalition partner, the royalist Funcinpec party; Prince Norodom Ranariddh's new eponymous party, and the opposition Sam Rainsy Party, historically the political underdog.
Twenty-three parties contested the 2003 polls, and Tep Nitha said he expected about 20 parties to register from April 28 to May 12 for this year's vote.
About 7,000 local election observers and 40 international monitoring bodies have registered to observe the election, he said.
Local elections last year saw about 68 percent of the country's 7.7 million registered voters casting ballots -- the lowest turnout since Cambodia's first democratic election in 1993.
Tep Nitha predicted that turnout in July will be higher.
The CPP won a landslide victory at last year's commune council elections, further tightening their grip on power ahead of the national polls.
Hun Sen has repeatedly said he will stay on in the post of prime minister if the CPP wins the polls.
Incumbent Prime Minster Hun Sen -- the longest-serving elected premier in Southeast Asia, with 23 years in power -- and his ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) are widely expected to win the poll.
Tep Nitha, secretary-general of the National Election Committee (NEC), said that 8,124,391 people had registered to vote before the February deadline.
The last general election, in July 2003 saw the kingdom plunged into a year of political stalemate as parties wrangled over forming a coalition. A government was finally formed in July 2004.
Cambodia has 57 political parties, including the CPP; its coalition partner, the royalist Funcinpec party; Prince Norodom Ranariddh's new eponymous party, and the opposition Sam Rainsy Party, historically the political underdog.
Twenty-three parties contested the 2003 polls, and Tep Nitha said he expected about 20 parties to register from April 28 to May 12 for this year's vote.
About 7,000 local election observers and 40 international monitoring bodies have registered to observe the election, he said.
Local elections last year saw about 68 percent of the country's 7.7 million registered voters casting ballots -- the lowest turnout since Cambodia's first democratic election in 1993.
Tep Nitha predicted that turnout in July will be higher.
The CPP won a landslide victory at last year's commune council elections, further tightening their grip on power ahead of the national polls.
Hun Sen has repeatedly said he will stay on in the post of prime minister if the CPP wins the polls.
9 comments:
Yea,
Remember you : " Boeuth pthaet vai chkai" the boss said.
I need a goog bottle of Cognac to warm up my lung before the general election, although I certainly know the CPP will win the election.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PM4dm-Fr8I
until the result is out, we cannot say CPP win the poll.
My beloved Khmers!
We Khmers still mentally and physically live in a world of misery and suffering under CPP, with little hope of escape, becuase of Dey Dek Cho Samdech Hun SenVarm doesn't have or no desire to have any purpose for which power can rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized nation to prevent harm to others. Therefore, he always intentionally keeps yearning every single one of CPP's member and Khmer selfishly and hungrily involving in corruption's system in order to get rich fast or just only breathing for a little suffocating life. My simple question is when our beloved Khmer people have intentionally wanted to be a master in our own house?
Of course your CPP will win by allowing the youns to vote for it.
For a look at why Hun Sen will win again visit www.about-cambodia.blogspot.com.
all 8 million voters are yuon! we know who will win the election. Not the CPP, but those in Hanoi.
HUN SEN ENJOY SO MUCH TO SEE 57 PARTIES IN CONTEST TO PROVE THE WORLD ABOUT CAMBODIA'S PLURALISM SYSTEM SO THAT MORE MONEY FROM WORLD AID WHICH EVENTUALLY GOES TO HIS FAMILY ACCOUNT AND HE KNOWS HE GONNA WIN BY CHEATING ANYWAY HE ALWAYS BRING IT ON ALL IDIOTS THE MORE THE BETTER FOR ME BUT THE IDIOTS ARE THE ONES WHO RACE WITH HIM INCLUDING THE DUMB HEAD SAM RAINFOR SY WHO ONLY CAN BE OPPOSITION (TO HELP HUN SEN REGIME LOOKS EVEN BETTER)FOR LIFE TILL HE DIES....HUN SEN IS SMART ALL I CAN SAY AND HE RULES FOREVER.....
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