Cambodian opposition sues election body

13 September 2013
Pakistan Daily Times
Elections / Government / Human rights / Social development
Elections

Cambodia’s opposition said on Thursday that it had filed a lawsuit against the kingdom’s poll authorities over strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen’s disputed election win. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) accused three top National Election Committee officials and their accomplices of faking voter names on the electoral roll, using ‘fake election results’ and abusing the election law. “These are criminal offences,” senior CNRP official Kuy Bunroeun told AFP after the lawsuit was filed at the Phnom Penh Municipal court. … NEC secretary general Tep Nytha, one of the officials being sued, said the poll body would cooperate in the case. “It is their right to file a complaint and it is the right of the court to decide in the case. The NEC is ready to follow the court procedures,” he told AFP. Hun Sen, 61, a former Khmer Rouge cadre who defected and oversaw Cambodia’s rise from the ashes of war, has vowed to rule until he is 74. His government is regularly accused of ignoring human rights and suppressing political dissent.

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