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Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
Opposition lawmakers plan to boycott a National Assembly session next week where the new – and disputed – composition of the country’s nine-member election committee is up for approval.
At the session, scheduled for next Thursday, October 11, lawmakers will decide whether to approve new appointments to the National Election Committee, whose make-up opposition lawmakers and activists have long criticised for its slant toward the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
Cheam Yeap, CPP senior lawmaker, told the Post yesterday that of the nine names on the list, both Im Suosdey and Sin Chum Bo, the current NEC president and deputy president, respectively, are included.
As for the rest of the seven slots, Yeap confirmed that Sor Suphary, the former president of Phnom Penh Municipal Court, is a new name on the list. The remaining ones are current members Som Chandina and Mao Sophearith.
Yeap did not provide any other names.
Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, which proposes the list, could not be reached for comment.
Opposition Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann threatened a boycott of the session, claiming the ministry made no effort to field candidates from a wider political spectrum.
“We will not participate in this meeting as long as [the ruling party] does not sit and debate to find internal unity to support NEC candidates,” he said.
In other signs of the lead-up to the national election in 2013, Sam Rainsy, self-exiled in France, resigned from his eponymous party on Tuesday.
The resignation suggests Rainsy is prepping for his return to the country as the head of the new Cambodia National Rescue Party.
3 comments:
NEC plans are flawed and everything have been done by NEC are also flawed. To make NEC becomes a flawless institution, NEC must reform according to what opposition wants and opposition can win the election. As long as the CPP wins the election, NEC is always flawed and no one is going to trust NEC.
Pang Sokheoun, Secretary-General of SRP in Sweden.
It is outrageous, illegal, immoral, and unacceptable
for the ruling party CPP to propose the members of NEC to run against opposition parties.
It can happen ONLY in Hun Sen's Banana Kingdom !!!
Under the Hun Sen banana Kingdom, he sent his finest investigator to solve the Chut Vuthy murder. 3 days later, the investigation was closed, 3 versions was created by the team, 2 people died, the drug scene and the crime scene was removed and forgotten, the 7 witness at the time of the shooting didn't see any shooter, now the suspect is free and Chut Vuthy murde case is now close and no one is punished.
NEC will surely be different. Because Hun Sen also send his finiest NEC official party.
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