800 votes bought by CPP

29 Jan 2012
By Leang Delux
Radio France Internationale
Translated from Khmer by Teuk Si Iv Khmer

The election for the Senate ended on Sunday afternoon and it was conducted in an atmosphere of calm. That was what Im Suosdey, president of the National Election of Cheaters (NEC), claimed during a press conference that ended not too long ago. Im Suosdey indicated that based on preliminary results, the CPP lead the SRP by a large margin (KI-Media: Wasn’t it a foregone conclusion?). A CPP representative announced that his party received 800 votes from members of other parties.

According the report provided by the NEC, commonly known as the National Election of Cheaters, the CPP received a wide margin of votes over the SRP, even though this is just a temporary result. Furthermore, a CPP representative immediately announced during a press conference held about 1 hour ago that the CPP received 797 votes from members of other parties.

The NEC report indicated that 58 votes were unaccounted for due to people not going to vote. The total number of votes counted was 11,383.

Im Suosdey commented that the atmosphere of the election was calm and the election was conducted smoothly.

It should be noted that, before the election, the SRP claimed that the CPP bought votes from SRP activists.

Comfrel, the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia, announced that, unlike other elections, it did not send out its observers during this election because it believes that this election in not effective and that Comfrel does not support such election.