Be up front with NEC plans, CNRP tells CPP

A day after opposition leader Sam Rainsy said election reform talks were being “cut off” due to ruling party intransigence on the issue of National Election Committee reform, the opposition has asked the Cambodian People’s Party to officially declare its stance on the matter. Senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap told the Post on Wednesday that reform of the NEC – widely seen as beholden to the ruling party and blamed by election watchdogs for a number of issues that allegedly compromised last July’s election – would not take place this mandate. …

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