DPA
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's National Election Committee said Friday it would announce temporary results from the July 27 national polls within 24 hours.
The committee said the results would be announced at 8 am (0100 GMT) Saturday on state media and a number of other outlets.
It said the 11 participating parties then had 72 hours to appeal.
The ruling Cambodian People's Party had won 90 of 123 seats in early counts and appeared to be unassailable.
But interest still remains in whether the royalist Funcinpec party, once a driving political force, can salvage more than the two seats it held in early polling - down from 26 in the 2003 election.
Cambodia has so far largely avoided the violence associated with previous elections, although security was expected to remain tight.
International observers, including from monitors the US and EU, concluded after polling that improvements to the electoral process still needed to be made, but overall declared them free, if not entirely fair due to the ruling party's dominance of the media.
The committee said the results would be announced at 8 am (0100 GMT) Saturday on state media and a number of other outlets.
It said the 11 participating parties then had 72 hours to appeal.
The ruling Cambodian People's Party had won 90 of 123 seats in early counts and appeared to be unassailable.
But interest still remains in whether the royalist Funcinpec party, once a driving political force, can salvage more than the two seats it held in early polling - down from 26 in the 2003 election.
Cambodia has so far largely avoided the violence associated with previous elections, although security was expected to remain tight.
International observers, including from monitors the US and EU, concluded after polling that improvements to the electoral process still needed to be made, but overall declared them free, if not entirely fair due to the ruling party's dominance of the media.
2 comments:
Since the government of Cambodia does not have an oversight or accountability (in fact, DO NOT count on the NEC ‘it’s useless’), a system of checks and balances, I have no faith in the Cambodian system of government.
Khmer farmer
Every Khmer citizens knows and understands that Cambodia is a country where scapegoat is ubiquitously and prevalently used to demonize and antagonize the opposition leaders or political dissidents, since the government of Cambodia does not have an oversight or accountability (in fact, DO NOT count on the NEC ‘it’s useless’), a system of checks and balances, I have no faith in the Cambodian system of government.
Khmer farmer
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