Original report from Phnom Penh
21 August 2008
National Election Committee members testified before the Constitutional Council on Thursday, to defend the committee's denial of three complaints of opposition parties of election irregularities.
The committee submitted 30 legal documents to support its reject of complaints that voters were deleted from lists, that illegal forms were used for voter identification and that some voter names appeared twice on voter registries.
The Sam Rainsy party had complained of the name omissions and the use of form No. 1018. The Human Rights Party complained of double names being used on some voter lists. Both parties have contested the election results.
Thursday's proceeding will be followed testimonies from representatives of each party. The Council will then decide whether to conduct a full hearing surrounding the complaints.
"We raised the legal issues and reasoning to explain to the Constitutional Council of our denial of the complaints of irregularities by the political parties," Ke Rith, a legal representative of the NEC, said Thursday following Thursday's session.
The NEC told the Council its decisions had been lawful, he said.
"We have full legal documents and fair evidence to show the Constitutional Council to defend the NEC decision," Keo Phalla, chief of the legal department of the NEC, said. "All of the documents are very strong legally, because all the decisions by the NEC depend on legal principles, internal rules, and procedures. So we hope that the decision of the Constitutional Council ill also depend on the same legalities."
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has said he has little faith the Council will rule in favor or his party, claiming the Council is biased toward the ruling Cambodian People's Party.
The committee submitted 30 legal documents to support its reject of complaints that voters were deleted from lists, that illegal forms were used for voter identification and that some voter names appeared twice on voter registries.
The Sam Rainsy party had complained of the name omissions and the use of form No. 1018. The Human Rights Party complained of double names being used on some voter lists. Both parties have contested the election results.
Thursday's proceeding will be followed testimonies from representatives of each party. The Council will then decide whether to conduct a full hearing surrounding the complaints.
"We raised the legal issues and reasoning to explain to the Constitutional Council of our denial of the complaints of irregularities by the political parties," Ke Rith, a legal representative of the NEC, said Thursday following Thursday's session.
The NEC told the Council its decisions had been lawful, he said.
"We have full legal documents and fair evidence to show the Constitutional Council to defend the NEC decision," Keo Phalla, chief of the legal department of the NEC, said. "All of the documents are very strong legally, because all the decisions by the NEC depend on legal principles, internal rules, and procedures. So we hope that the decision of the Constitutional Council ill also depend on the same legalities."
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has said he has little faith the Council will rule in favor or his party, claiming the Council is biased toward the ruling Cambodian People's Party.
6 comments:
Puk ah jkae viet accept no responsible for it fraudulences ,this show the world that ah Kong Keb country it still it own world ,it won't match with any country because it fourth class of the human, To get the best solution we should use Herosima(Japan) technique.
As long as Hun Sen (the ex-Khmer rouge) and his gangster (CPP)
still in power, the government official is increasing more corruptions.
Event the National Election Committee member is so corrupt.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Cambodia of uncertainty: economic is booming, but sovereignty is dooming
Cambodian peoples might be so happy with the economic growth of at least 7.00% annually. But in reality, this growth is just the shadow of failure because the inflation is soaring up to 10-15%. The fruits from this growth is not equally distributed. 80% of Cambodian farmers are significantly deteriorated by this growth.
1. The social gap is appearing every aspect of Cambodian society. The poor and the rich is gradually widened from such tricky economic boom. Many poor children quit school because they cannot afford to pay tips for teachers.
Private schools are booming to attract the rich children while poor children are dooming under the act of teachers who receive unjust salary in public schools.
There are many expensive cars such as lexus and land cruisers drive across dumped street children and beggar children.
2. Cambodia has become the "Police State"since the failure of UN to crack down this tactical structure. Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 7 January 1979 to structure Cambodia society as a Police State. They withdrew the uniform military because their bottom structuring was complete. Currently, this structure is gradually strengthening. Major Cambodian policemen are Vietnamese by origin who have been well trained to carry gun to safeguard Cambodian citizens.
How can we say Cambodia is free and independent when Cambodia has foreigners to safeguard our peace and security?
3. National election is just the political game to legitimize Police State leader. By conducing votes, the Police State leader can legally claim their leadership and inspire more aids to last their power.
Their power and wealth are not only gained by exploiting national treasures but also accrue from the foreign aids and loans. New acceptance of decentralization and good governance only sustain their power to last forever.
4. Cambodian peoples should not be easily deceived by the Khmer Rouge brutality. How good is it when communists come to free us from another communists? They both are communist. Their characteristic is still communist and their leadership is absolute. How is different between Khmer Rough communist and Vietnamese communist? It is different only the color (red & white) but the nature of these two communists are totalitarianism regime.
Khmer Rough regime is passed, no KR regime will come to power again; and during KR regime, Khmer can protect its border land. White communist Vietnam is foreigner and this country has long time attempted to swallow Cambodia. Now their ambition is on the right track.
KY
Puak Ah chke, ches ter cheh ke. Khloun eng puke mok sangsong sala, pleuv, spien tev!!! Khloun ros neuv sroul neuv srok ke, si bay chgagn, moat tomne ches te cheh ke teuv!!!
Puk neark sangsong sala ,spien noueng ban luy pee na mok.yeoung juy pruy kreng pouk eung ors dei noa.puk neak kour changcham tha ke ban luy pe siem dak hopoa ke oy siem chol.
Outsiders think that majority insiders min teann kuenh kdamachhus min tean srork tirk pnak sabay chors.
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