Thursday, May 28, 2009

Elections were tainted by vote-buying from the ruling party: SRP MP Yim Sovann

CPP Official Winner in Election

By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
27 May 2009


The National Election Committee released the official result of this month’s council elections, with the ruling Cambodian People’s Party winning leadership in all councils across the country.

The fractious royalist parties of Norodom Ranariddh and Funcinpec won seats, along with members of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party.

The country’s 11,353 commune council members from the CPP and the Sam Rainsy, Norodom Ranariddh and Funcinpec parties voted for 3,235 council members at the municipal, provincial and district levels on May 17.

The CPP won 302 of 374 seats for Phnom Penh and the provinces, as well as 2,249 or 2,861 seats in other municipalities and districts, the NEC said Wednesday. The Sam Rainsy Party won 61 seats in Phnom Penh and the provinces, followed by Funcinpec with six and the Norodom Ranariddh Party with five.In other municipalities and districts, the Sam Rainsy Party won 518 seats, followed by 55 for Funcinpec and 39 for the Norodom Ranariddh Party.

Sam Rainsy Party Yim Sovann said the elections were tainted by vote-buying from the ruling party, a charge the CPP denies.

Hang Puthea, executive director of the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections, said the results were as expected.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think in this picture here Hun Sen casted a ballot to vote for "Change" but changes never come! I strongly believe he voted for someone else and not for himself.

Anonymous said...

Nice shirt PM!

Anonymous said...

Ah New Phally is busy in the meeting, unable to comment.

Ah PPU (Perverse Pedophilia Urchin) is also busy in the meeting, unable to comment.

Anonymous said...

We see the vote robber!!!

Anonymous said...

Ah Yim Sovann,

You better shut the fuck up or some body will fuck you in the ass.

Sincerely,

Nayan Chanda and Sarotee Sri Krishna

Anonymous said...

Vote buying is illegal so the cambodian national election was illegitimate. Lets have a revote