CNRP Threatens NEC With Suit Over Election Irregularities
The opposition CNRP on Monday threatened to sue the National Election Committee (NEC) over alleged election irregularities during the July 28 ballot—which both the ruling CPP and CNRP claim to have won, though the NEC’s results support a CPP victory. CNRP vice president Kem Sokha promised to sue the NEC through Cambodia’s courts if its preliminary election results, which the CNRP claims are fraudulent, are upheld by the Constitutional Council of Cambodia. “If the National Election Committee, the Cambodian People’s Party and Constitutional Council of Cambodia do not provide justice to the people, we will use the law to sue you,” Mr. Sokha said at a press conference at the party’s Phnom Penh headquarters. … The NEC, acting on orders from the Constitutional Council, for the first time on Sunday opened some of its internal documents for public scrutiny. Eight out of 13 of the safety packages from Kratie province, in which original ballot counts are sealed and supposedly kept for safe-keeping, were either left open or were sealed improperly. The documents inside were also incongruous with separate forms that had been sent to political parties. …
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-threatens-nec-with-suit-over-election-irregularities-40910/
