Washington
29 July 2008
The Cambodian People's Party apparent election sweep will not likely be contested by a second round of voting, despite calls from the opposition party and others that the election was tainted, an election official said Monday.
"There is not a possibility of having a re-vote unless you have particular evidence to prove irregularities," Heu Rong, head of the National Election Committee's operations department, said, as a guest on "Hello VOA."
Four main parties have alleged irregularities in nearly every province, including the omission of thousands of voter names from registries, intimidation and vote-rigging.
"Voters' names were deleted, and names were missing from the list," said Mar Sophal, monitoring chief for the Committee for Free and Fair Elections. "Right now we can't evaluate the election process. We'll wait and see if the NEC tackles the issues, such as complaints from parties, first."
Heu Rong said the NEC was investigating the allegations, but they had not received official complaints yet at the national level. Some complaints may still be held at the commune or provincial levels, he added.
"There is not a possibility of having a re-vote unless you have particular evidence to prove irregularities," Heu Rong, head of the National Election Committee's operations department, said, as a guest on "Hello VOA."
Four main parties have alleged irregularities in nearly every province, including the omission of thousands of voter names from registries, intimidation and vote-rigging.
"Voters' names were deleted, and names were missing from the list," said Mar Sophal, monitoring chief for the Committee for Free and Fair Elections. "Right now we can't evaluate the election process. We'll wait and see if the NEC tackles the issues, such as complaints from parties, first."
Heu Rong said the NEC was investigating the allegations, but they had not received official complaints yet at the national level. Some complaints may still be held at the commune or provincial levels, he added.
6 comments:
When the rule is broken and biased, the only way to correct is to revote otherwise this kind of event will occure again.
No, we will never get anywhere that way. The losers can continue to break the rule, and we'll be re-voting all year around, and the economy will slide down hill.
Either his Heu Rong is totally blind or he was born naturally Dai-Viet. Ah Pleu..... Treason is the word for it.
I think Cambodia don't need any election because it waste time and money. Let Ah Hun be a stupid leader until he goes to Hell.
It is just a matter of day dream of the opposition parties to consider revote. You even cant run your own parties, how can you run the whole country. People are just fighting for the power.
I wish we have a very strong opposition party who put the national interest as the priority, but after all, they are just using people voice as their stepping stone to gain their personal interest.
It is shamefull while the parliamentary members from SRP run to CPP, and to Cambodian people they are not too stupid
USE PEOPLE POWER
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