Wednesday, July 30, 2008

SRP calls for demonstration against alleged election fraud

Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Ly Menghour
The Mekong Times


The Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) yesterday claimed that at least a million opposition supporters were illegally denied their right to vote in Sunday’s election, and plans to hold a demonstration this morning against the alleged election fraud at the party’s headquarters in Phnom Penh.

Around 20,000 leaflets entitled One Million Citizens Deprived of their Voting Rights were printed and distributed by the SRP yesterday. “The names of countless eligible voters have been deleted from the voter’s list. At least one million citizens suspected of sympathy for the opposition have been disenfranchised,” claimed the leaflets.

Mu Sochua, SRP deputy secretary general, said that the main aim of the rally is to file a complaint against the National Election Committee (NEC) and commune and village chiefs for illegally deleting voters’ names.

She added that the lawsuit brought against the NEC will be sent to the Constitutional Council of Cambodia (CCC) while the complaint against local authorities will be submitted to local courts.

“People who couldn’t cast their vote because they couldn’t find their names on the list should not hesitate to come to the SRP headquarters to make a complaint against commune and village chiefs to the court as it is a criminal case,” she said.

Mu Sochua added that the demonstration will also welcome voter’s who were victims of an alleged voter ID form fraud, claiming that village and commune chief had distributed 1018 voter ID forms which had allowed people to assume other voter’s identities and vote for them.

More than 10,000 voters in Phnom Penh’s Beong Tompun commune were missing from voter rolls, she said. “So, the SRP is organizing this protest on their and all the others’ behalf.”

NEC Secretary General Tep Nytha was not concerned by the planned complaint. “Making a complaint against the NEC is the right of [the party]. However, according to the election law, the protest over voter lists and voting registration should have been made during its initial inspection,” he said.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd truly recommend the opposition leaders to gather together and call on the people for a massive demonstration to protest against the electoral fraud and other irregularities during the election by using PEOPLE POWER.

You must take time to choreograph and orchestrate the upcoming demonstration; yes, it has to be massive, or don't bother.

Also, people overseas need to protest in front of the (preferably) the U.S. embassy and the UN.

Again, the demonstration must be massive and ubiquitous and simultaneously to show a strong opposition against the ectoral fraud. And the international community must know and recognize that the election was flawed.

Anonymous said...

Oh, get a life!

Anonymous said...

Base on the Campaign supporter turn-out for each parties this was the expected result:

>CPP between 48 to 60 seat.
(reduce of 15 seats from poorly manage the country in all sections to almost a framented state)
>SRP betwen 40 to 50 seats, a (double gain from the last election, better representation of the public intrests)
>NRP about 5 seats
>HRP about 5 setas
>Funcipec about 3 seats

The current result is UNBELEIVABLE.. The CPP SHOULD BE in hot water... the voters confident & DISSATIFACTIONS should be reduce and a larger swing to goto SRP and other parties.

Anonymous said...

These numbers seem right. SRP is with in all rights to fight this fraud of an election

Anonymous said...

Did the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen receive a congratulatory call from the US embassador in Phnom Penh after the ruling party trumpeted their electoral landslide victory?

If not, the election was not fair or free.

Anonymous said...

If no SRP ,All Khmer live with fear and hope to all their children in the future that just khmer and no right to stay in own land

Anonymous said...

Thais understand that Samdach Decho does not dare To USe Iron Fist with Thais (Due to his internal weakness)only with Cambodians inside Country......
In case Sihanoul fight Samdach Decho will not fight-- hun SDen is stronger than Sihanouk...
Wichai Rungrat