Ly Menghour
The Mekong Times
The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) scored a landslide victory in Sunday’s national election, with the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) a distant second and the Human Rights Party (HRP), the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) and Funcinpec each securing a handful of seats, according to preliminary results from the CPP, the National Election Committee (NEC), and election observers.
The CPP received 73.98 percent of the votes or 90 seats at the National Assembly while the SRP won 21.14 percent of votes or 26 seats, according to the CPP’s preliminary results. The HRP obtained 2.44 percent or three seats, the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) 1.63 percent or two seats, and the Funcinpec 0.81 percent or one seat.
Election watchdog the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) yesterday also released its own unofficial election results, which were collated from 1,170 polling stations with a 3.6 percent margin of error, according to the organization.
Comfrel said that, while its early figures had indicated higher percentages for the HRP, the NRP and Funincpec, its latest results were much more consistent with the CPP’s.
“Our first calculations were not 100 percent correct,” admitted Thun Saray, president of Comfrel’s Board of Directors. “We have not collected all the data yet ... but Comfrel’s latest calculations will be only one or two seats different from what the CPP has announced.”
A Comfrel official in charge of collating the data said the CPP had received 89 seats, the SRP 28, while the HRP, Funcinpec and the NRP each won two.
If the CPP has won around 90 seats it will be able to lead the nation alone. In 2006 the nation amended its Constitution from a two-thirds to a simple 50 percent plus one majority formula, following protracted disputes after its last two national elections.
Thun Saray is concerned about one-party rule in Cambodia.
“We are worried that in the future, democracy and freedom may face difficulties. We do not know yet how difficult it will be. It depends on the feelings of our leader. When [the leader] is open-hearted, he will keep a place in society for freedom and democracy as well. But if he is not happy, he will surely restrict freedom and democracy.”
The NEC has also released its preliminary results for 19 cities and provinces, with the CPP taking a clear lead, but official results are not expected for around a week.
“The NEC will divide the seats after the official election results are announced. Declaration of election results by the parties is their right,” NEC President Im Suosdey said yesterday evening.
Im Suosday said, though monsoon rains had hit the country on election day, the turnout was healthy with around 75 percent of Cambodia’s 8.1 million voters turning up to vote. He added that the NEC had received 30 complaints related to the election day.
The CPP received 73.98 percent of the votes or 90 seats at the National Assembly while the SRP won 21.14 percent of votes or 26 seats, according to the CPP’s preliminary results. The HRP obtained 2.44 percent or three seats, the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) 1.63 percent or two seats, and the Funcinpec 0.81 percent or one seat.
Election watchdog the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) yesterday also released its own unofficial election results, which were collated from 1,170 polling stations with a 3.6 percent margin of error, according to the organization.
Comfrel said that, while its early figures had indicated higher percentages for the HRP, the NRP and Funincpec, its latest results were much more consistent with the CPP’s.
“Our first calculations were not 100 percent correct,” admitted Thun Saray, president of Comfrel’s Board of Directors. “We have not collected all the data yet ... but Comfrel’s latest calculations will be only one or two seats different from what the CPP has announced.”
A Comfrel official in charge of collating the data said the CPP had received 89 seats, the SRP 28, while the HRP, Funcinpec and the NRP each won two.
If the CPP has won around 90 seats it will be able to lead the nation alone. In 2006 the nation amended its Constitution from a two-thirds to a simple 50 percent plus one majority formula, following protracted disputes after its last two national elections.
Thun Saray is concerned about one-party rule in Cambodia.
“We are worried that in the future, democracy and freedom may face difficulties. We do not know yet how difficult it will be. It depends on the feelings of our leader. When [the leader] is open-hearted, he will keep a place in society for freedom and democracy as well. But if he is not happy, he will surely restrict freedom and democracy.”
The NEC has also released its preliminary results for 19 cities and provinces, with the CPP taking a clear lead, but official results are not expected for around a week.
“The NEC will divide the seats after the official election results are announced. Declaration of election results by the parties is their right,” NEC President Im Suosdey said yesterday evening.
Im Suosday said, though monsoon rains had hit the country on election day, the turnout was healthy with around 75 percent of Cambodia’s 8.1 million voters turning up to vote. He added that the NEC had received 30 complaints related to the election day.
6 comments:
Cheoyo Ah Hun!!!
Fuck You Ah Khvack!!!
Go to Hell Ah Sen!!!
I supported Rainsy all the way, then put my hope on Kem Sokha to work together to create only ONE OPPOSITION PARTY, but each one of them wanted to be leader, now they all lost.
No Unity no future. These parties including Rainsy will die out itself.
Also, Rainsy has to come up with a new name instead of his own name and trade mark it if he is afraid of stealing by the CPP.
I stop supporting the oppositions if no unity among them.
Plan for the nerxt five years. Merge all teh oppostion parties, take out Eng Chhay ieng, it will help a bit. Or go banished forever until the yuan d and siams come vote for you.
All the people who voted overwhelmingly for the CPP and Hun Sen think they made the right choice.
One day, once they spend the last dollar earned from selling their rice fields and resort to selling their reasonable-looking daughters into prostitution and when their sons and not so reasonable-looking daughters or aging spouses or they themselves are hired by the day (the way Mexican illegal workers are) to work on building projects to be supervised and sexually harassed by Vietnamese foremen,
then we shall see whether Samdech Decho Hun Sen is indeed the economic miracle worker and the Great Leader he is made out to be.
People voted for political stability (not financial), and to prevent the country from erupting into another civil war.
These people casted their votes out of fear of reprisal.
Ballots for Hun Sen or bullets into your head. The choice was clear. That was why these people rehired the same leader.
Well, if they fear in the voting booth by themselves, there is nothing anyone can do.
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