Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Sam Rainsy said
Saturday that his party would await the results of Sunday’s election
from the National Election Committee (NEC) before deciding how the
opposition will respond to what he described as the systematic
“unfairness” of the electoral process.
“We will first assess the level of unfairness, the scale of the
cheating, before determining our final position,” Mr. Rainsy told a
press conference at the CNRP’s office in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district,
which followed a meeting between Mr. Rainsy, CNRP Deputy President Kem
Sokha and international election observers.
Mr. Rainsy also said he was certain that the NEC has already decided
to award a victory to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP).
At the press conference, Mr. Sokha once again assured that
post-election protests by the CNRP—should the election results be deemed
unacceptable—would be peaceful. But, he said that he remained concerned
over what would happen if official election results do not reflect
people’s actual votes.
“What we are concerned about is when they announce the result. The
actual vote counting is this number but they announce another number.
That is our concern,” he said.
“If violence happens or not, it will depend on the powerful people,
those who have weapons. The CNRP is not an armed force. Our principle is
non-violence,” he said.
Mr. Rainsy also said that the CNRP has found widespread
irregularities in voter registration, including numerous cases of people
being registered to vote in more than one location, which could allow
people to cast multiple ballots on Sunday.
“We have conducted research and found that hundreds of thousands of
double names that the NEC has created to keep on the voter list to allow
some people to vote two times,” he said.
The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) held
its own press conference on Saturday morning to warn that the supposedly
indelible ink that voters dip their thumbs into at polling stations to
ensure that people only cast one ballot can be easily washed away.
NEC President Im Sousdey said that he would hold a press conference
Saturday afternoon to address the opposition party’s claims and
Comfrel’s report on the ink.
Mr. Rainsy also told reporters that the opposition has obtained
information that Provincial Election Committees in Battambang and
Banteay Meanchey, where large parts of the registered population are
migrant workers in Thailand, plan to cast ballots for the CPP using the
identities of people living abroad.
“They will use the free names, the migration names for someone who
has no right to vote. They are hired to vote for the CPP. They have
already prepared these identity documents…. They are just waiting for
election day to call them to vote. They just change the photo [on the
identity card],” Mr. Rainsy said.
Mr. Rainsy said that the CNRP will refuse to accept election results
from any village in which such “ghost voters” are proven to have cast a
ballot, adding that because of the large number of people with
“sophisticated call phones” capable of taking photographs, monitoring
for this election would be more valuable and thorough than in 2008.
Mr. Rainsy also said that the CNRP will collect its own polling data to compare with official results following the election.
“On our side we will collect information and results from different
polling stations and we will issue our own results,” he said.
5 comments:
cnrp will lose the election
...because of Hun sen cheating
loser always complaining, no matter what ,,
Hun sen days are numbered and the world is watching closely. Hun sen is a loser, a cheater, a traitor, "a corrupt and vicious human being"
CPP is a loser from 1993 until now
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