A re-election should be held in 2015 following the implementation of a comprehensive series of electoral reforms, an umbrella group of local rights organizations and independent election monitors said Friday.
The organizations, including the Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel), Adhoc, the Community Legal Education Center, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and NGO Forum, made the call for a revote at a press conference in Phnom Penh, saying that irregularities during the July 28 election had favored Prime Minister Hun Sen’s long-ruling CPP.
The reforms should encompass an overhaul of the National Election Committee and the Cambodian Constitutional Council, a re-jig of the voter registration system and a new law on party financing, the groups said in a statement released after the conference.
“This statement is also about resolving the current political situation and to curb the conflicts and social ills that keep happening,” Preap Kol, executive director of Transparency International Cambodia (TIC), said, referring to violence that has broken out at some post-election protests.
Koul Panha, executive director of Comfrel, said that the NGOs’ requests would be submitted to the CPP and the opposition CNRP.
“We now urge both parties to hold re-elections,” Mr. Panha said.
NEC Secretary-General Tep Nytha said Friday that a re-election was impossible.
“This is just the opinion of the civil societies…re-elections are not possible,” before the end of the fifth mandate in 2018, he said, before declining to further comment.
A report released last month by a coalition of NGOs, including TIC and Comfrel, found that the CPP saw a significant increase in its share of votes in areas where the most irregularities were reported on election day.
Calls by the NGOs for a re-vote echo the opposition’s latest demands. While the CNRP had initially called for an investigation into electoral irregularities, in the past month they have demanded complete re-vote and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s resignation.
3 comments:
this guy(nitha)cause alot of pain to cambodian people,we should spit on fis face
This devil guy he did bad for khmer people he the one make khmer blood flow on the ground,now he try to cheat khmer more about election in 2015,this tactic he want cpp dogs hold the power for one more year that he can use his technic to cheat or make a gamble for khmer people,so from every body if any one see him on the street have to clean him or any one is cpp .this tactic cpp always use for the people so we have to use this technical back to them but every good time.
A man without a moral standing will justified anything to commit harmful act to others. These men will deny wrong doing even caught redhanded. Only thing Khmer can do is to be strong and stand up all at the same time, they do not have enough man power to control us all. Only problem is Vietnames may send their massive number of soldiers in the form of civilian cloth to foul the UN and the world to support the recent so call additional treaty with Hun Sen 5 or 6 days ago. But, there is no otherway out for our survival species. We are a dying species. Forget about Hun Sen and the like. We can cry,yell, curse, and complain all we want, but there is nothing will change. We must do what must be done. Stand up all at once and use your legal power, a people power and remove them by peaceful mean.
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