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| SRP commune election campaign in Phnom Penh (Photo: Sam Ol posted on Facebook) |
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| SRP commune election campaign in Battambang (Photo: Sor Chandeth posted on Facebook) |
Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
“We don’t have the resources to deliver our political platform and our activities.”
As 10 parties prepare to kick off campaigning for local polls next month, election monitors say they see a concerning disparity in access to mass media and other continued irregularities.
The official 15-day campaign period begins Friday, but Koul Panha, head of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections, said smaller parties have little ability to use TV or radio to get their messages across.
The Cambodian People’s Party dominates the airwaves, and other parties have long complained that its hold on media, especially television, imbalances the election process.
“There is a big gap between parties in their ability to use mass media, especially TV and radio,” Koul Panha said.
Chan Yet, vice president of the Democratic Republican Party, which has candidates in six provinces, said his members are “disappointed” in their lack of media access.
“We don’t have the resources to deliver our political platform and our activities,” he said.
Koul Panha said other irregularities are still a problem.
Soldiers, police and military police have been seen helping campaign for members of the ruling CPP party, he said, which is against the law. “Armed forces must stay neutral,” he said.
Tep Nitha said there were no remarkable irregularities reported.
Comfrel will deploy more than 5,000 monitors for the June 3 polls. Added to that will be 3,000 from the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections.
6 comments:
10 parties prepares to kick off campaigning for local polls in a very small country of Cambodia.
There are only 2 major political parties in America, a few in Canada and 2 in France.
Cambodian so-called intellectuals who form parties to compete with the CPP are still in their kindergarten level when it comes to their understanding of the word "UNITY". Somehow they keep spelling the word backward and thus has been unablet to pass on to grade one.
It is time that the ordinary Cambodians move beyond their kindergarten grade mindset and start voting intelligently or strategically for one potenital party to rid the country of the biggest devil in its history. Get rid of the worse one first and then you can have more time and freedom to think of other potential parties.
If you wait for the so-called intellectual Khmer leaders to solve your and the country's problems, you will wait for the rest of your life and your children's and grandchildren's as well since none of them has ever heard of or learnt to write the word "UNITY" in Khmer, English, French, or Chinese.
Pissed off
Correction:
"10 parties prepare..."
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