Seems like this "new" NEC is playing to the same old tune here over Ms Rona Smith's proposal. Does the NEC lack the capability to register Cambodian workers living overseas or does it simply lack the political incentive to include them in the voting process, knowing more likely than not that their votes will have been cast against its incumbent regime?
On the other hand, hundreds of Vietnamese nationals living or working legally or illegally in the country don't seem to have difficulties being registered to vote or granted residency status? Who are the people with the incentive to include these people if not the corrupt local officials whose leniency and complicity over the issuing of legal paperwork are encouraged and tolerated by central authorities for a reason? No, it's not about "xenophobia" or racism, but about justice, fairness and right to participate in one's community and shape the political life of one's country. If we contrast this treacherous complicity with the CPP regime's recent campaign of harassment and intimidation of Cambodians abroad and inside the country through legal threats of arrest, actual prosecutions and detentions of these individuals for voicing their legitimate views and feelings about the dire state of their compatriots and the insanity of Cambodia's politics, the statement and stance of this NEC over Ms Smith's suggestion indicates just how politically partisan it is already turning out to be. And that's hardly a positive omen.
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