NEC: Some 75,000 Observers to Witness Sunday Commune/Sangkat Council Election

AKP Phnom Penh–About 75,000 local and international observers have registered for the Commune/Sangkat Council Election to be held this Sunday, June 5.

According to the National Election Committee (NEC), of them, 74,885 are local observers from 72 organisations and associations, while 110 others are foreign observers from Cambodian associations in foreign countries and international organisations, including the Centrist Democrat International (CDI), Centrist Asia Pacific Democrats International (CAPDI), International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace (IPTP), ASEAN Inter Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA), and so on.

Twenty-three (23) special guests from the University of Tokyo, Niigata University of International and Information Studies, and Embassies of Australia, Japan and Russia in Cambodia have been officially recognised by NEC.

Besides, there are 775 local journalists and 39 foreign journalists registered to cover this local election, NEC added.

A total of 17 political parties – Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), Candlelight Party (CP), FUNCINPEC Party, Khmer National United Party (KNUP), Cambodia National Love Party (CNLP), Cambodian Nationality Party (CNP), Cambodian Youth Party (CYP), Cambodia Reform Party (CRP), Khmer Will Party (KWP), Kampucheaniyum Party (KP), Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP), Ekpheap Cheat Khmer Party (ECKP), Beehive Social Democratic Party (BSDP), Cambodia Indigenous People’s Democracy Party (CIPDP), Khmer National United Party (KNUP), Reaksmey Khemara Party, and Khmer Economic Development Party (KEDP) – are partaking for the 1,652 communes/Sangkat throughout Cambodia.

About 9,205,681 eligible voters, of them 4,904,832 are women, will go to vote at 23,602 designated polling stations across the country.

The previous Commune/Sangkat Council Election was held on June 4, 2017 in 22,148 polling stations across the country with the participation of 12 political parties. Some 7.04 million or 89.52 percent of the total eligible voters of 7,865,033 turned out to the polls. In that election, CPP won a landslide victory by obtaining 1,156 communes/Sangkat, while the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) got 489 communes/Sangkat, and Khmer National United Party (KNUP), a commune.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press