Press conference on August 25, 2008

INVITATION TO A PRESS CONFERENCE

Journalists, observers and all interested persons are invited to attend the following press conference:

TOPICS:

1- Status of election complaints lodged by the Opposition at the National Election Committee and the Constitutional Council: new evidence of election irregularities nationwide; refusal by the NEC to allow any ballot recounting for any polling station even when there are serious discrepancies and inconsistencies in documents from a given polling station.

2- Position of the Opposition regarding the CPP-scheduled swearing-in ceremony and first session of the new National Assembly.

3- Opposition's letters to the signatories of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements and Opposition's scheduled trips abroad.

VENUE: SRP Phnom Penh Headquarters.

DATE: Monday, August 25, 2008, at 02.30 pm.

SRP Cabinet

For more information please call 092 888 001 or 092 888 002 or 092 888 003

Next hearing at the Constitutional Council

Tuesday, August 26, 2008, at 08.30 am: Refusal by the NEC on August 12, 2008 to recount ballots cast at any of the 650 polling stations in Svay Rieng province where minutes of the counting (Form nº 1104) have been obviously tampered with. 1104 Forms collected by SRP representatives from 129 polling stations do not show the same figures as those on the same 1104 Forms collected be the CPP/NEC from the same 129 polling stations. The SRP asked the NEC to recount ballots from only 16 polling stations (out of 129) where signs of forgery of the 1104 Forms are the most obvious. The NEC remained adamant in its refusal. Based on results proclaimed by the NEC, the CPP claims to have won all Svay Rieng province's five National Assembly seats. The SRP lacks only a few hundreds votes out of a total of 287,995 valid ballots cast to win a seat from the CPP. A recounting could give the SRP this opportunity to win one seat, regardless of other election irregularities that have benefited the CPP: deletion of thousands of non-CPP voter's names from the voter registry before Voting Day (those citizens from Svay Rieng province unjustly deprived of their voting rights have thumb-printed a petition to be submitted to the Constitutional Council); issuing of thousands of forged 1018 Forms to illegitimate voters to fraudulently inflate votes for the CPP (a number of those forged 1018 Forms from Svay Rieng province will also be submitted to the Constitutional Council).