By Xia Lin, Liu Lu, Long Heng
PHNOM PENH, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The major ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) has declared that it took the lead in the polling of the fourth general election of Cambodia Sunday, wining at least two thirds of the 123 seats at the National Assembly, senior CPP officials said.
CPP could take 80 to 89 seats, CPP officials said. Its spokesman Khieu Kanharith also confirmed the ratio.
"We are leading in most of the provinces," said the spokesman.
The major opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) could win around 30seats, CPP sources quoted initial vote count as saying.
However, NGOs and supervising bodies estimated that CPP had over 70 seats and SRP some 50.
Meanwhile, SRP leader Sam Rainsy called for a re-vote in Phnom Penh, saying that 200,000 people there could not vote Sunday after their names were lost from registration lists.
"Neither party won more than two-thirds of the seats," he insisted.
CPP senior member told Xinhua that his party won majority of the votes in Phnom Penh, but he didn't know how many seats were harvested yet.
The national television station TVK, authorized by the National Election Committee (NEC), Sunday night started to broadcast preliminary official results province by province.
At most polling stations in Kaoh Kong province, Pailin municipality and Pursat province, CPP basically shared over 70 percent of the ballots, SRP 15 to 20 percent, and the co-ruling Funcinpec Party and the newly established Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) single digits, according to TVK.
Monday afternoon, NEC will make public overall preliminary official results and final official results will be known about one month later.
CPP victory means that Prime Minister Hun Sen will stay for another five-year term, after being government leader for 23 years.
Sunday morning, Hun Sen and his wife cast their votes at the polling station in the provincial Teacher Training Center near his residence in Takhmao town of Kandal province.
"So far, the atmosphere is good and I hope that today, until the end of the voting and the counting of ballots, the election will go smoothly across the country," the 57-year-old premier told reporters.
He didn't comment anything further inside the polling station, because it was against the election law.
Nget Sovandary, a 39-year-old school teacher, said that she voted for a leader that could make her living standard better.
"The election is very important for me because it provides me with citizen rights to choose a leader that we love," she said.
Chea Savuth, a 43-year-old civil servant, said that he was so happy with voting because "we will choose a leader that will bring the country with peace and economic development."
Official records showed that Cambodian had 11 percent of economic growth on average in the past three years, the highest among Southeast Asian countries. The per capita GDP rose from 448 U.S. dollars in 2005 to 594 U.S. dollars in 2007 and the foreign reserves from 890 million U.S. dollars in 2005 to 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2007.
While campaigning during the past month, Hun Sen and his CPP repeatedly cited these positive economic figures and development of infrastructure as the major achievements of his government in order to boost the electoral results.
NEC held a press conference Sunday afternoon, saying that the polling was conducted nationwide smoothly and successfully, as scheduled from 7:00 a.m. local time (0000 GMT) to 3:00 p.m. (0800 GMT).
Some voters went to the polling stations only to find that they were not registered by NEC, which has been the major problem so far in the polling day, said NEC, while not telling their number.
In addition, it rained in Kaoh Kong province and Sihanoukville municipality Sunday, but the weather didn't affect the people who cast their ballots there, NEC officials added.
Altogether 11 political parties are running for the 123 seats at the Cambodian National Assembly. A total of 8,125,529 voters were registered and 17,000 local and international observers watched the polling process, according to NEC figures.
More than 10 million ballot papers have been printed for the nation's 8.1 million eligible voters, with around 32,000 bottles of indelible ink supplied to 15,255 polling stations nationwide, NEC added.
PHNOM PENH, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The major ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) has declared that it took the lead in the polling of the fourth general election of Cambodia Sunday, wining at least two thirds of the 123 seats at the National Assembly, senior CPP officials said.
CPP could take 80 to 89 seats, CPP officials said. Its spokesman Khieu Kanharith also confirmed the ratio.
"We are leading in most of the provinces," said the spokesman.
The major opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) could win around 30seats, CPP sources quoted initial vote count as saying.
However, NGOs and supervising bodies estimated that CPP had over 70 seats and SRP some 50.
Meanwhile, SRP leader Sam Rainsy called for a re-vote in Phnom Penh, saying that 200,000 people there could not vote Sunday after their names were lost from registration lists.
"Neither party won more than two-thirds of the seats," he insisted.
CPP senior member told Xinhua that his party won majority of the votes in Phnom Penh, but he didn't know how many seats were harvested yet.
The national television station TVK, authorized by the National Election Committee (NEC), Sunday night started to broadcast preliminary official results province by province.
At most polling stations in Kaoh Kong province, Pailin municipality and Pursat province, CPP basically shared over 70 percent of the ballots, SRP 15 to 20 percent, and the co-ruling Funcinpec Party and the newly established Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) single digits, according to TVK.
Monday afternoon, NEC will make public overall preliminary official results and final official results will be known about one month later.
CPP victory means that Prime Minister Hun Sen will stay for another five-year term, after being government leader for 23 years.
Sunday morning, Hun Sen and his wife cast their votes at the polling station in the provincial Teacher Training Center near his residence in Takhmao town of Kandal province.
"So far, the atmosphere is good and I hope that today, until the end of the voting and the counting of ballots, the election will go smoothly across the country," the 57-year-old premier told reporters.
He didn't comment anything further inside the polling station, because it was against the election law.
Nget Sovandary, a 39-year-old school teacher, said that she voted for a leader that could make her living standard better.
"The election is very important for me because it provides me with citizen rights to choose a leader that we love," she said.
Chea Savuth, a 43-year-old civil servant, said that he was so happy with voting because "we will choose a leader that will bring the country with peace and economic development."
Official records showed that Cambodian had 11 percent of economic growth on average in the past three years, the highest among Southeast Asian countries. The per capita GDP rose from 448 U.S. dollars in 2005 to 594 U.S. dollars in 2007 and the foreign reserves from 890 million U.S. dollars in 2005 to 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2007.
While campaigning during the past month, Hun Sen and his CPP repeatedly cited these positive economic figures and development of infrastructure as the major achievements of his government in order to boost the electoral results.
NEC held a press conference Sunday afternoon, saying that the polling was conducted nationwide smoothly and successfully, as scheduled from 7:00 a.m. local time (0000 GMT) to 3:00 p.m. (0800 GMT).
Some voters went to the polling stations only to find that they were not registered by NEC, which has been the major problem so far in the polling day, said NEC, while not telling their number.
In addition, it rained in Kaoh Kong province and Sihanoukville municipality Sunday, but the weather didn't affect the people who cast their ballots there, NEC officials added.
Altogether 11 political parties are running for the 123 seats at the Cambodian National Assembly. A total of 8,125,529 voters were registered and 17,000 local and international observers watched the polling process, according to NEC figures.
More than 10 million ballot papers have been printed for the nation's 8.1 million eligible voters, with around 32,000 bottles of indelible ink supplied to 15,255 polling stations nationwide, NEC added.
3 comments:
This is unfair why CPP eliminate 200,000 people from the voting list in Pnom Penh?
This is completely wrong.
This is not democracy at all.
This is no freedom for Cambodian people in Phnom Penh.
I urge all people in Phnom Penh need to protest.
Need re-vote in Phom Penh!
I the SRP can have won 50 seats, my predition last week that the Royalist party might have won as 4 seats as many is almost correct.
Hey my dear freinds, Cambodian!
We all know that our Decho Hun Sen is a very ambitious man and has a very strong will and determination to do what ever it takes just to prove that he is a "STRONG MAN WITH IRON FISTS." He already showed us his potential and ability to conquer Cambodia and the people 100%. However, he needs to prove Cambodian that he's not only Samdech Decho to the Cambodian, but also to the foreigners like Thai and Vietnam that he's also Samdech Decho to them too, which he has to show them that don't you guys FUCK around with me. He has to do whatever it takes politically, millitarily and diplomatically to stop them from encroaching our land. He has to stop them completley and take back the land that they took from us by using the 1904 and 1907 maps. He can't not act as a defender all the times; he has to be in the offense mentality. So do we Cambodians. Being the defender's mentality will make us VICTIMS. For instance, look at what Thai is doing to us right now. They offensively invading us and ask us to negotiate with them for our own land. What Thai wants from us is to have the Preah Vihear's profit shared with them. They know they can't take The Preah Vihear from us, but if they put pressure on us millitarily, hopefully, we make mistake by making wrong move by either give them some partial profits from the Preah Vihear's or make concession of land somewhere along the border. So Thailand's mentality is "If they don't profit from Preah Vihea, then they can profit from other part of Cambodia." We can give Thailand a big consequence by taking the to the ICJ and let the UN and the ICJ scrutinize all of the borders not just with Thai but also with Vietnam and Laos. Hun Sen must use the Preah Vihear Invasion by Thai to solve all of our disputes: land and water. He can noot just wait for them to invade us then try to solve the problems. None of those neighbors are our friends. When they see Cambodia strong "Khmer Empire", they kissed up to us just to wait for the golden opportunity to take us down. When we're down, they slashed our throat with no mercy: After the Pol Pot genocidal regime, we had the Vietname invasion, then the Thai killings along the border. Let's hope that our Samdech Decho Hun Sen is our Decho for Cambodians not for the foreigners, Vietnam and Thai.
A.S
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