Watchdogs accused of conspiring with CNRP

Deputy Prime Minister Sok An has accused two independent election watchdogs of conspiring with the opposition to undermine the election. Speaking at the Council of Ministers on Monday, An said that the Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel) and the US-government-funded National Democratic Institute (NDI) had inflated the number of names they claimed were missing from the voter list before the July 28 poll. “It is a bad trick of the [groups] manipulated by the opposition to question the legitimacy of the election procedure [and] reject the election result,” he said. …

Kevin Ponniah and Vong Sokheng
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