2007 COMMUNE COUNCIL ELECTION:
CPP USES INTIMIDATION, CORRUPTION AND ADMINISTRATIVE HARASSMENT
TO PREVENT SRP CANDIDATES FROM BEING REGISTERED
CPP USES INTIMIDATION, CORRUPTION AND ADMINISTRATIVE HARASSMENT
TO PREVENT SRP CANDIDATES FROM BEING REGISTERED
Candidates for commune council elections scheduled for April 1, 2007 must be officially registered from January 1 to 3, 2007. The Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) intends to put up candidates for all Cambodia’s 1,621 communes. However, the only opposition party represented in Parliament is encountering problems resulting from intimidation, corruption and administrative harassment from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), which is trying to block the registration of SRP candidates in remote provinces/areas.
- In Koh Kong province, the CPP-affiliated authorities are using threat to force some SRP candidates to withdraw their candidacy in remote districts such as Botum Sakor and Thmor Bang, while controversial businessman Ly Yong Phat, who is also a CPP Senator, is pouring money to achieve the same goal. Ly Yong Phat is actively involved in gambling, trafficking, smuggling, money laundering and land grabbing. According to an article titled “Guns subdue farmers as Senator clears land” published in the Phnom Penh Post dated December 29, 2006, “Police and security guards fired guns to repel Sre Ambel farmers resisting the destruction of their orchards, now inside 20,000 hectares of concessions the government has granted CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat.” For more information, please contact SRP representatives for Koh Kong province at 012 589 902 or 016 756 914 or 016 935 802.
- In Pursat province, the CPP-affiliated authorities are intimidating villagers in the remote Veal Veng district into renouncing to be SRP candidates. For more information, please contact SRP representatives for Pursat province at 012 963 312 or 011 963 312.
- In Preah Vihear province, CPP-affiliated commune chiefs for Sroyang and Koulen Tbaung communes, both in Koulen district, have stopped working over the last few days (they have been invited to attend some “special events”). Therefore, certificate attesting residency and registration as voter in the concerned communes, which is required for any candidate to get registered, cannot be delivered. For more information, please contact SRP representatives for Preah Vihear province at 012 444 438.
2 comments:
No surprising, I has been part of the communist CPP's dirty job to win any election.
Since there is only one opposition party in Cambodia, the opposition must work with all civil communities to refer all problems created by CPP to United Nations and all countries signatories to peace agreement to Cambodai in 1991 to enforce CPP to respect the agreement and to implement all oustanding issues foward. Opposition party cannot now relied to the king since all of the king privilleges are already completely dead. The King is not death but he is very powerless to enforce the true democracy system.
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