SRP: No Honest Person Or Institution Is Stupid Enough To Recognize The Results Of A Sham Election

September 2, 2008
Source: SRP

NO HONEST PERSON OR INSTITUTION IS STUPID ENOUGH
TO RECOGNIZE THE RESULTS OF A SHAM ELECTION

Today the CPP-controlled National Election Committee (NEC) proclaimed the "official results" of the July 27, 2008 national election that was manipulated on an unprecedented scale by Cambodia's ruling party. But no honest person or institution is stupid enough to overlook the massive election fraud and to recognize the results of a sham election.

The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM - Cambodia) in its July 29 statement points that "2008 National Assembly Elections have fallen short of a number of key international standards for democratic elections."

The Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) has been collecting worrying evidence of election fraud since Voting Day and every day brings more proof of electoral fraud of national scale.

Even though, compared to previous elections, fraud in 2008 took on a more sophisticated and more subtle form, serious long-term observers were able to detect it, especially fraud related to manipulation of voter lists which took place before Voting Day and outside the polling stations.

We have been gathering an ever increasing amount of evidence of such manipulation of voter lists, which we have published on our website http://tinyurl.com/4eegak. The evidence presented is largely what inexperienced short-term observers could not see in a sophistically rigged election (See our July 29 statement: "What [naive and lazy] election observers did not see in a rigged election").

Our Web site http://tinyurl.com/4eegak is updated on a daily basis and provides more and more irrefutable evidence that the July 27, 2008 was really a sham election.

The countless and various irregularities exposed on our Web site http://tinyurl.com/4eegak do not reflect isolated and fortuitous incidents but show the general pattern of a massive and systematic election fraud, which led today to "official election results" that seriously distort the will of the Cambodian people.

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Opposition Leader Assails Fraudulent Form

By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
13 August 2008

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Opposition leader Sam Rainsy dismissed the possibility of losing his seats when a new government is formed, but claimed instead he was concentrating on restoring the votes of those who were unable to cast ballots in July's election.

"We have found the evidence that the ruling Cambodian People's Party commune and local authorities illegally issued form 1018 to allow ghost and Vietnamese voters to be eligible to vote for CPP, and I launched the complaint yesterday," Sam Rainsy said.

The falsification of documents carries an Untac penalty of up to 15 years, Sam Rainsy said, and many local officials had violated the law.

He was receiving more evidence each day, he said.

Sam Rainsy: Election Results Adjusted for Fraud Give Fewer Seats to CPP

Sam Rainsy's letter as published in The Cambodia Daily, August 12, 2008

Election Results Adjusted for Fraud Give Fewer Seats to CPP

In "Opposition Parties Reiterate National Assembly Boycott Threat" (August 9-10, page 3), you mentioned figures about the election results adjusted by SRP for irregularities.

NEC's provisional figures published on August 9, 2008, reiterated that the CPP won 3.49 million votes and 90 seats versus 2.05 million votes and 31 seats for the combined opposition: SRP, Human Rights Party and Norodom Ranariddh Party.

''The true results of the election" that I presented -- 77 seats for the CCP, 35 for the SRP, seven for the HRP and two each for Funcinpec and the NRP -- were based on taking back from the CCP votes that were fraudulently collected after CPP commune chiefs had issued forged 1018 registration forms to its supporters. Another adjustment was made taking into account the fact that a significant portion of the electorate identified as non-CPP supporters, had been disenfranchised.

We have made our calculations based on two hypotheses.

1- Our minimum hypothesis is based on the assumption that:

a) An average of 10 forged 1018 forms were given out in the vicinity of each of the 15,254 polling stations, making a total of 152,540 forged forms and inflating the CPP votes by the same amount.

b) An average of 50 non-CPP supporters were disenfranchised at each polling station, meaning that a total of 762,700 voters nationwide were prevented from voting for non-CPP parties. Many independent observers acknowledge that up to 10 percent of the 8.1-million-strong electorate were prevented from voting.

2- Our maximum hypothesis is based on the assumption that:

a) An average of 65 forged 1018 forms were given out in the vicinity of each polling stations, making a total of 991,510 forged forms and inflating the CPP votes by the same amount (see July 29 SRP statement "What election observers did not see in a rigged election"). We now have proof that the 1018 forms were methodically and systematically issued by the CPP local authorities nationwide. This maneuver was conducted on an unprecedented scale.

b) An average of 65 non-CPP supporters were disenfranchised at each polling station, meaning that a total of 991,510 voters nationwide were prevented from voting for non-CPP parties (see the above-mentioned SRP statement). This figure is to be compared with the 2.1 million registered voters who did not or could not vote at the July 27 poll. Based on the much smaller number of people (less than one million) who did not vote at the previous national elections, we can infer that half of the above 2.1 million people wanted to vote but could not because they were disenfranchised. This led to the lowest voter turnout for a national election since the poll organized by the United Nations in 1993. The three opposition parties are now collecting petitions throughout the country from those voters who deplored the loss of their voting rights.

For each of the two hypotheses, we have revised the election results by:

a) Taking back from the CPP votes associated with forged 1018 forms.

b) Increasing, for the main non-CPP parties (SRP, HRP, NRP, Funcinpec), the number of their votes by the number of disenfranchised voters, using an allocation key that reflects the actual breakdown of non-CPP votes based on figures published by the NEC.
The minimum hypothesis shows the following results:

• CPP: 3.34 million votes; 78 seats
• SRP: 1.75 million votes; 34 seats
• HRP: 0.52 million votes; 7 seats
• NRP: 0.45 million votes; 2 seats
• Funcinpec: 0.40 million votes; 2 seats.

Total CPP + Funcinpec: 3.74 million votes; 80 seats
Total SRP + HRP + NRP: 2.72 million votes; 43 seats
The maximum hypothesis shows the following results:

• CPP: 2.50 million votes; 67 seats
• SRP: 1.87 million votes; 41 seats
• HRP: 0.56 million votes; 7 seats
• NRP: 0.48 million votes; 3 seats
• Funcinpec: 0.43 million votes; 5 seats.

Total CPP + Funcinpec: 2.93 million votes; 72 seats
Total SRP + HRP + NRP: 2.91 million votes; 51 seats

Furthermore, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap's statement about the "three opposition parties" having "representatives" in the National Election Committee is simply not true.

In all cases NEC members had to resign from their original parties; therefore, to say that NEC has political party members as its representatives is a mistake. In any case, no NEC members came from NRP and HRP and only two members were originally from SRP, versus five from CPP and two from Funcinpec, making a total of nine.

What's more, the representatives originally from SRP had actually protested in writing against NEC's plan to unfairly delete voters' names, but they were overruled, which is hardly surprising given they were by far in the minority.

Finally, Cheam Yeap advocated that the NEC's proceedings were observed for irregularities at all levels by international observers and party representatives. In this connection, what does this CPP official think about the assessment by the EU Election Observation Mission that the Cambodian elections of 2008 "fell short of key international standards"?

Sam Rainsy
SRP President

Cambodian opposition to protest election at European Parliament

Aug 13, 2008
DPA

Phnom Penh - The Cambodian opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) will protest the results of the July 27 elections at the European Parliament in Geneva, secretary general Mu Sochua said Wednesday.

Mu Sochua said her party would denounce alleged anomalies to the world 'in the interests of democracy.'

'Many people were not allowed to vote,' she said. 'We will ask the international community to make its own judgments.'

The SRP and other parties claim nearly a million people could not find their names on the electoral rolls during the July 27 election, robbing them of their opportunity to vote.

But the SRP's ally the Norodom Ranariddh Party, headed by the self-exiled leader after whom it was named, accepted the vote Tuesday after first insisting it would protest.

Analysts said the change of heart may reflect an attempt by Ranariddh to sway the dominant Cambodian People's Party - which holds 90 of 123 seats, or 58 per cent of the vote - to grant him a pardon from his 18-month jail sentence imposed for an illegal property transfer.

Ranariddh formed his own party after he was ousted by the royalist Funcinpec party in 2006. He was sentenced in 2007 on a complaint from his former party, which he claimed was politically motivated.

The ruling CPP was unmoved Wednesday, leaking details of its new cabinet to the media which gave senior government posts to some opposition members who had defected their parties, and lean pickings for opposition members who had stayed loyal.

Cambodian opposition supporters rally against election results

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy (left)

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — About 300 supporters of Cambodia's main opposition party rallied in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to protest the results of the weekend election and to demand a re-run of the poll.

Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party has claimed victory in the Sunday poll, saying it captured at least 90 of the 123 seats in parliament, giving it more than a two-thirds majority.

"We cannot accept the results of the election. Please cancel the results of the election and hold a re-vote," opposition leader Sam Rainsy told the crowd gathered inside his party headquarters in the capital.

Sam Rainsy has estimated that one million out of 8.1 million registered voters were cut from the rolls, although European Union election observers have pegged that figure at 50,000.

"It is very unjust," Sam Rainsy said to the cheering crowds, adding that he will file complaints against National Election Committee (NEC) officials.

Dozens of police were deployed along the streets near Sam Rainsy Party headquarters to prevent a public demonstration. The party's deputy secretary general Mu Sochua stood at the entrance, shouting over a loudhailer that the election was "not free and unfair" and urging people to join the rally inside.

NEC secretary general Tep Nytha denied the opposition allegation that one million people had been denied a vote and said there was no law that permitted a re-run of the entire election.

"The case that one million people could not vote because their names had been disappeared from voting lists is not correct," he told AFP.

International monitors said Tuesday the election was flawed and did not meet key standards despite improvements in electoral processes.