Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Parties Fault NEC for Hard Registration

By Seng Ratana, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh
19 May 2008


At least four political parties are unhappy with the National Election Committee, saying the government body had made registration for the upcoming election difficult and that commune councils have been ineffective.

The Norodom Ranariddh Party says it will file a complaint against the NEC for the deletion of an official’s name from an election list, and the opposition Sam Rainsy Party has complained of intimidation of one of its candidate.

The SRP candidate, who was serving as a teacher, was threatened he should change his place of work if he wished to stand for election, the Sam Rainsy Party said.

And officials of the Sangkum Khmer Niyum have filed a complaint to the Constitutional Council for its rejecting from the process.

NEC Secretary-General Tep Nitha said some commune councils had been inactive implementing their jobs. Of the 12 parties who have registered, the NEC has officially verified six parties, declined one and is reviewing four.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The SRP candidate, who was serving as a teacher, was threatened he should change his place of work if he wished to stand for election..

Is there any clause in our constitution stipluated and classified Teacher in Public school as a Public Servant?

Is there any clause in our constituion stipulated that Public servant shall resign from his/her cureent post in order to contest and run for an office in the government?

If the answer is "Yes", it could not possibly claimed that the above mentioned a a cridble intimidation.

Anonymous said...

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