Ruling Party Confident Ahead of Election Day

WASHINGTON — With Cambodia’s national parliamentary elections just days away, senior officials of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party say they are confident in an election victory, despite the return of opposition leader Sam Rainsy. The ruling party has campaigned on a number of platforms, especially the construction of infrastructure projects, including roads, bridges and schools, as well as maintaining peace in the country following decades of war. In interviews with VOA Khmer, senior officials of the CPP said these will be enough to carry them on Election Day, July 28. “First, people have not forgotten the Pol Pot regime,” Hun Neng, the governor of Kampong Cham province and older brother of Prime Minister Hun Sen, said. “Only the CPP is trying to develop the nation, that’s the main point. Nobody is going to the jungle again, and nobody is going to provoke a war and let America bomb Cambodia anymore.” The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, which on Friday welcomed Sam Rainsy back to Cambodia after more than three years in exile, has campaigned against corruption and on improving Cambodia’s record on human rights and basic freedoms. …

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