The people of Cambodia in 2018 would have never given Mr Hun Sen a chance to lead the country.”Īdditional reporting by Len Leng from Phnom Penh.Camping Recreation Animals Wildlife Adventure Snow Pillow Sham by SpoonflowerĬlassic Camping Stripes Rustic Stripe Green Red Pillow Sham by Spoonflower “It was a scenario set from Mr Hun Sen way ahead when it was clear from the 2013 elections, that 2017 elections, that the CPP would totally lose. “It was a sham election and we knew it from the very beginning,” Mu Sochua, CNRP deputy president, speaking at a press conference in Jakarta on Monday morning. The drop was particularly marked in former CNRP strongholds like Phnom Penh, in which turnout appears to have decreased by 13 percent since 2017, based on preliminary results. In the 2017 commune elections, turnout was over 90 percent. While turnout in the last national election was just 69 percent, those figures came before the voter list was cleaned of duplicates and “ghost” voters. People line up to vote at a polling station during a general election in Phnom Penh īut turnout, too, likely represents a drop from previous elections. Katrin Travouillon, a Cambodian politics researcher at the Australian National University, said the pressure on people to turn up Sunday was enormous. Now I don’t have any interest but I need to go.” Difficult to boycott “Back then I was so enthusiastic and wanted to go vote. She grudgingly admitted she would likely spoil her ballot. And then they give us 20,000 riel ($5) and say don’t forget to vote number 20,” Lyda explained a few days before the election. If you don’t vote for us, you won’t get good services. “They come by and say, look, we provided you good roads and schools.
Over the past few months, the ruling party officials here have drilled into voters precisely which number to tick. After the CNRP was dissolved and its president imprisoned on treason charges, however, the newly elected commune councillors were forced to defect to the CPP or step down and be replaced by ruling party members. Her village – ramshackle temporary housing located off a dusty street on the outskirts of Phnom Penh – skewed heavily CNRP in both the 2013 national election and last year’s commune election. “Now that they’ve dissolved the CNRP, I don’t know what to do or who to vote for,” said Lyda, who like many opposition supporters interviewed asked that her real name not be used. Once inside the polling booth, however, they lodged a silent objection. Pressured by local authorities who vowed to withhold basic services from nonvoters, bosses who warned they would dock wages, and senior officials threatening that boycotters would be arrested as traitors, many Cambodians said they were afraid to stay home on election day. When the CNRP called for a voting boycott, the government retaliated with heavy-handed threats against abstainers. The government’s main opposition, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was dissolved last year, leaving 19 small parties – many of them little known – to contest the CPP.
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In all, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians spoiled their ballots yesterday, quietly protesting what many have deemed to be the country’s least free election yet. In 2013, that figure was just 0.99 percent. In Phnom Penh, 14.4 percent of votes cast were invalid. The election commission put the figure closer to 8.5 percent.
While the final results have yet to be released, the latest figures collected by the CPP suggest Sunday’s election saw a more than 500 percent increase in the number of spoiled ballots from the 2013 election, from 1.6 percent to 9.11. But as the results were tallied Sunday night, in polling station after polling station the second highest vote was like Leakhana’s: no one. The win solidifies Prime Minister Hun Sen‘s grip on power, after serving for more than three decades. Party spokesman Sok Eysan said the results suggest that the ruling party likely won every seat in parliament, though he could not yet confirm. Preliminary results suggest that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won about 77 percent of the vote, with more than 82 percent turnout. “All,” she said, admitting that she spoiled her ballot by ticking every box. Phnom Penh – There were 20 parties running in Sunday’s election in Cambodia, but for Leakhana, who asked that her real name not be used, the choice was obvious.
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