Meas Sokchea with additional reporting by David Boyle
The Phnom Penh Post
The opposition Sam Rainsy Party claimed yesterday that they had caught members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party attempting to buy an SRP vote in Battambang province and had evidence to prove it.
Mok Ra, Tuol Ta Ek commune councillor in Battambang town, claimed yesterday that he had recorded CPP members Cheam Pe A and Run Thel, both of whom had defected from the SRP, on tape attempting to buy his senate vote for US$700 at the Banorn Hotel on Sunday.
In the recording, the voice belonging to a man the SRP alleged is Cheam Pe A can be heard saying to Mok Ra that he will pay an initial sum of $200 followed by a later installment of $500 if no complaint to authorities was lodged.
“As a principle, they [the CPP] give you 1 million riel ($246). If [Mok] Ra can help, I would agree to give you $200 tonight. I want Ra to help the CPP and me. Ra must apply to join the CPP,” the voice said.
SRP lawmaker and Battambang provincial senate candidate Mu Sochua said that the following day, after they had filed a complaint against Cheam Pe A with the tape and money to the provincial electoral commission, Run Thel was taped again at Mok Ra’s house attempting to convince him to drop the complaint.
“The councillor called my deputy right away; my deputy went to the house. The CPP guy [Run Thel] was so afraid that he was caught in the house of the councillor that he went under the bed hiding,” she said.
Cheam Pe A said he was too busy to comment yesterday, but senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap has previously denied the CPP has a policy of paying 1 million riel for votes.
Provincial election commission president Vorn Porn said he had summonsed both sides for questioning and attempted conciliation, but would take the case to a hearing if these efforts failed.
“If [PEC] found that he was guilty he would be tried according to the law,” Vorn Porn said.
8 comments:
Sam Rainsy Party councillors must not sell their ideals and integrity to the party and nation, as this is our final chance to rescue our beloved Cambodia from becoming the second Kampuchea Krom.
WHAT A PITY!!! VERY SOON SAM RAINSI WILL BE SUROUNDED BY
MEMBERS WHOM HE DOES NOT TRUST .
what a shame CPP, please SRP stand firm to safe a our country from ah thmel CPP( evil ah yorng youn). May God bless our SRP and our country.......jey yo SRP
AH CHEAM YAP'S CPP, CAN BUY JUNG PEOPLE. MONEY CAN BUY ALL AH CPP'S VIETCONG SLAVE INCLUDE AH HUN SEN, AH CHEA SIM, AH HENG SAMRIN, AH KIM SOKA OR HRP! KHMER NATION.
A tip of iceburg. How many SRP who already sold their votes but keep quiet.
Too bad, when the money talk and that what was happening when Khmer people cleared all bamboos barracks around Loung Veak quarter, when Thais threw the gold and silver coins into the place.
YOU ARE EXCACTLY 100% RIGHT : LONG VEK WAS ALSO A PALACE
GUARDED WITH ELITE SOLDIERS. WHEN THE KING AND CRONIES
GRABBED ALL THE FORTUNE , POOR PEOPLE RISKED THEIR LIFE
ALSO WITH THE CORRUPTION OF THE ELITE SOLDIERS LEADERS,
LONG VEK WAS BURNED TO GROUND . POOR PEOPLE COULD NOT
CUT THE BAMBOO WITHOUT OK FROM SOLDIERS .
Cambodians should learn from the past Long Vek or queen Ang Mey .
How Vietnam and Thai had been treated Khmer people?
Today Hun Sen becomes slave of Vietnam.Will another Khmer leader want to be a Thai slave?
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.STOP!
BE A KHMER PROTECT A CAMBODIA AND HIS PEOPLE.
Everyone wakes wakes,stands up with feet or hands fight back to Hun Sen and Vietnamese in Cambodia.
8:28 AM
Today ONLY?
Khmers have been YUON's slaves since after Chey Chetha II died and NGOC VAN later took control. She used Khmer court to engage espionage causing many civil wars and YUON army were in. Ang Mei was later on, she was Yuon's prisoner.
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