In Restarted Talks, Cambodia Parties Fail to Agree on NEC Membership
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the main opposition party resumed negotiations on Thursday to break their 10-month stalemate but failed to reach an agreement on how to reform the country’s election body, party officials said. The CPP agreed to a proposal by the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s (CNRP) to make the National Election Committee (NEC) a constitutionally mandated body but refused the opposition party’s demand that the panel’s membership be endorsed by a two-thirds majority in parliament. The CPP insisted that NEC members be approved by only an absolute majority, officials said after the talks at the Senate building in Phnom Penh. …
Rachel Vandenbrink
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