Ly Menghour
The Mekong Times
The Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and the Human Rights Party (HRP) separately submitted complaints about the preliminary results of the recent national election to the Constitutional Council of Cambodia yesterday. The council has 10 to 20 days to examine and decide on any complaints, according to Article 115 of the Election Law.
The two parties resorted to seeking the council’s intervention one day after their complaints were rejected by the National Election Committee (NEC).
“The NEC’s decision was groundless. It said we have no evidence, but we have provided much evidence including witnesses and false 1018 electoral forms to the NEC,” SRP lawyer Kong Sam Un said.
Keat Sokun, deputy president of the HRP’s steering committee, alleged that the NEC is unwilling to deal with any complaints.
“Normally as soon as we complain, the NEC is ready to reject it,” Keat Sokun said. “On the electoral day we saw so many irregularities happen … Anything prohibited occurred on election day — the use of alcoholic substances, the presence of village and commune chiefs around ballot stations and deletion of many voters’ names.”
The NEC publicized the official preliminary results of the July 27 election on Aug 9, with the incumbent Cambodian People’s Party winning 90 of the 123 parliamentarian seats available.
The Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) and Funcinpec have accepted the results they originally rejected, leaving the SRP and the HRP as the only two parties which remain firm in their stance against the results. The two opposition parties charge that that too many irregularities happened during the election such as the disappearance of some one million voters from the voters list and the falsification of 1018 forms that allowed people whose names were not included in the voters list to vote.
NEC President Im Suosdey said his organization has refused to consider the complaints due to a lack of evidence, and that the allegation regarding falsification of the 1018 papers is beyond the NEC’s capacity.
According to Article 114 of the Election Law the complaints would have had to include specific locations, times and identification of the perpetrators, said Keo Phalla, director of the NEC’s Litigation and Legal Service Department.
“The complaints are unclear … and there is no evidence. [Such] a demand … is not easy [to address],” Keo Phalla said.
However, Kong Sam Un argued that the NEC should be responsible for the cases of the false 1018 papers as it authorized commune chiefs to issue such documents.
“The issuance of false 1018 forms is certainly a penal case, and the NEC must assume responsibility,” he said.
The two parties resorted to seeking the council’s intervention one day after their complaints were rejected by the National Election Committee (NEC).
“The NEC’s decision was groundless. It said we have no evidence, but we have provided much evidence including witnesses and false 1018 electoral forms to the NEC,” SRP lawyer Kong Sam Un said.
Keat Sokun, deputy president of the HRP’s steering committee, alleged that the NEC is unwilling to deal with any complaints.
“Normally as soon as we complain, the NEC is ready to reject it,” Keat Sokun said. “On the electoral day we saw so many irregularities happen … Anything prohibited occurred on election day — the use of alcoholic substances, the presence of village and commune chiefs around ballot stations and deletion of many voters’ names.”
The NEC publicized the official preliminary results of the July 27 election on Aug 9, with the incumbent Cambodian People’s Party winning 90 of the 123 parliamentarian seats available.
The Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) and Funcinpec have accepted the results they originally rejected, leaving the SRP and the HRP as the only two parties which remain firm in their stance against the results. The two opposition parties charge that that too many irregularities happened during the election such as the disappearance of some one million voters from the voters list and the falsification of 1018 forms that allowed people whose names were not included in the voters list to vote.
NEC President Im Suosdey said his organization has refused to consider the complaints due to a lack of evidence, and that the allegation regarding falsification of the 1018 papers is beyond the NEC’s capacity.
According to Article 114 of the Election Law the complaints would have had to include specific locations, times and identification of the perpetrators, said Keo Phalla, director of the NEC’s Litigation and Legal Service Department.
“The complaints are unclear … and there is no evidence. [Such] a demand … is not easy [to address],” Keo Phalla said.
However, Kong Sam Un argued that the NEC should be responsible for the cases of the false 1018 papers as it authorized commune chiefs to issue such documents.
“The issuance of false 1018 forms is certainly a penal case, and the NEC must assume responsibility,” he said.
5 comments:
NEC and Constitutional council are thieves. Who are you going to complain?
To 2:25PM,
I totally agreed with you.
Australia
no matter what they do, there will be no action taken untill the intervention from any countries or organizations that has much influence on the country.
My beloved 5:59PM!
In my illiterate view, evidently and historically speaking, we Khmers are psychologically characterized by not moving toward greater freedom, rationality and understanding. Why are we not? 'cause the people of Khmer who recently make up the populace of the corrupted society unconscietiously lack even the knowledge that we have the ability to make autonomous judgements or fight for our right and freedom.
Ironically speaking, I think therefore I am totally agreeing with you, "There will be no action taken untill in the intervention from any countries or organizations that has much influence on the country", because we Khmers are unwillingly and undesirably wanted to help ourselve in order to have freedom,
To me NEC is the crook too. They are working for CPP.
National Election Corruptions (NEC).
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