Five Parties Registered for Election; Opposition Holding Out

May 5, 2013
By Kaing Menghun
The Cambodia Daily

Five political parties have now registered to vote in the July 28 national elections, the National Election Committee (NEC) said on Friday, but the country’s main opposition group, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), has yet to submit candidates for the vote.

At a meeting held at the NEC headquarters inside the Ministry of Interior compound, NEC officials announced that Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party had been “officially accepted” as a contender, while the little-known Sanhcheat Khmer Party needed to make some changes to its application documents.