20 May 2008
CPP's new strategy: disenfranchisement of non-CPP voters (2)
It has become obvious now that the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) is implementing a new strategy, which was successfully tested in 2007, to secure another election victory even before Voting Day on 27 July 2008. In the voter list "clean up" process conducted by the CPP-controlled National Election Committee (NEC), some 600,000 names have been deleted from the voter registry. Names which should be deleted (ghost voters, foreigners with no voting right) have been kept on the list whereas names of real and legitimate votes have been deleted because related to those identified by CPP-affiliated village chiefs as non-CPP supporters.
Over the last five years, from the 2002 commune elections to the 2007 commune elections, the CPP has dramatically lost ground. In 2007 as in 2002, the CPP collected 61 percent of the popular votes. But there is a big difference between the two elections: in 2007, the voter turnout was only 65 percent whereas it was 87 percent in 2002, meaning that support for the CPP computed on the basis of the whole electorate dropped from 53 percent in 2002 to 39 percent in 2007. It was only through a massive disenfranchisement of non-CPP voters that the CPP could maintain its positions. The CPP is resorting to the same strategy in 2008.
Sam Rainsy in Paris, Marseilles, Brussels, Belfast and Berlin (2)
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy is currently in Europe to take part in several events. He was in Paris and Brussels for the launch of his book "Des racines dans la pierre " (Rooted in the stone) and gave interviews to several radio and TV stations (*). On May 15 – 17, he attended a conference of Liberal International in Belfast ( Northern Ireland , United Kingdom ). On May 18, he joined the Cambodian community in Marseilles to celebrate Visak Bochea in a Cambodian pagoda where he met with SRP supporters from several towns in the South of France. He is now in Berlin to meet with German government officials and to celebrate with his liberal friends the 50th anniversary of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.
(*) Sam Rainsy's book can be ordered online at Amazon by clicking here.
"Hun Sen is Cambodia 's Mugabe" (2)
On May 16, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy and many other prominent politicians from all over the world attended the 55th Congress of Liberal International in Belfast . Sam Rainsy was quoted as saying: "Hun Sen is Cambodia 's Mugabe. Hun Sen and Robert Mugabe are dictators who have been in power for nearly thirty years. Both of them have caused miseries to their peoples and will be defeated by the democratic opposition in the next few months." Morgan Tsvangirai is expected to win the final presidential election in Zimbabwe next month.
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CPP's new strategy: disenfranchisement of non-CPP voters (2)
It has become obvious now that the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) is implementing a new strategy, which was successfully tested in 2007, to secure another election victory even before Voting Day on 27 July 2008. In the voter list "clean up" process conducted by the CPP-controlled National Election Committee (NEC), some 600,000 names have been deleted from the voter registry. Names which should be deleted (ghost voters, foreigners with no voting right) have been kept on the list whereas names of real and legitimate votes have been deleted because related to those identified by CPP-affiliated village chiefs as non-CPP supporters.
Over the last five years, from the 2002 commune elections to the 2007 commune elections, the CPP has dramatically lost ground. In 2007 as in 2002, the CPP collected 61 percent of the popular votes. But there is a big difference between the two elections: in 2007, the voter turnout was only 65 percent whereas it was 87 percent in 2002, meaning that support for the CPP computed on the basis of the whole electorate dropped from 53 percent in 2002 to 39 percent in 2007. It was only through a massive disenfranchisement of non-CPP voters that the CPP could maintain its positions. The CPP is resorting to the same strategy in 2008.
Sam Rainsy in Paris, Marseilles, Brussels, Belfast and Berlin (2)
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy is currently in Europe to take part in several events. He was in Paris and Brussels for the launch of his book "Des racines dans la pierre " (Rooted in the stone) and gave interviews to several radio and TV stations (*). On May 15 – 17, he attended a conference of Liberal International in Belfast ( Northern Ireland , United Kingdom ). On May 18, he joined the Cambodian community in Marseilles to celebrate Visak Bochea in a Cambodian pagoda where he met with SRP supporters from several towns in the South of France. He is now in Berlin to meet with German government officials and to celebrate with his liberal friends the 50th anniversary of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.
(*) Sam Rainsy's book can be ordered online at Amazon by clicking here.
"Hun Sen is Cambodia 's Mugabe" (2)
On May 16, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy and many other prominent politicians from all over the world attended the 55th Congress of Liberal International in Belfast . Sam Rainsy was quoted as saying: "Hun Sen is Cambodia 's Mugabe. Hun Sen and Robert Mugabe are dictators who have been in power for nearly thirty years. Both of them have caused miseries to their peoples and will be defeated by the democratic opposition in the next few months." Morgan Tsvangirai is expected to win the final presidential election in Zimbabwe next month.
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6 comments:
Keep on dreaming, Sam Rainsy.
បោះឆ្នោត ថ្ងៃ ២៧ កក្កដា ២០០៨ មានតែពីរជំរើស ៖
- បោះឆ្នោត អោយជនក្បត់ជាតិ (អាក្បត់ជាតិហ៊ុន សែន បំរើផលប្រយោជយួន)
ឬ
- បោះឆ្នោត ជូនអ្នកស្នេហាជាតិ (ឯកឧត្តមសម រង្ស៊ី បំរើផលប្រយោជខ្មែរ)
Two sides of the Cambodian vote on July 27, 2008, vote for the :
- Traitor (ah Hun Sen youn servant, CPP: Communist Pro youn Party)
or
- Patriot (H.E. Sam Rainsy khmer servant, SRP: Sam Rainsy Party)
Khmer farmer
Ah Savage Xam Rainxy must be incarcerated for cheating and for accusing everyone of being killers for his own political gain
Let it goes 2:45pm. Your propaganda time is over. The truth is already out there. You can't fool us any longer.
Cheyo Sam Rainsy
Ah psychopath Savage Hun Sen must be incarcerated for cheating and for criminal against humanity in Cambodia
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