NEC begins review of election complaints

NEC begins review of election complaints

The Cambodia Herald-15-08-2013: The National Election Committee (NEC) announced Thursday, they had started to review the many complaints regarding election irregularities, according to an NEC official.

Representatives of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) did not attend the meeting with NEC officials to resolve the complaints related to the preliminary election results announced earlier in the week.

However the official said that the NEC can still proceed with the inquiry even though the opposition party did not attend the meeting.

Tep Nitha, NEC’s Secretary General, said that NEC had received 17 complaints rejecting the poll results from the CNRP along with poll discrepancies announced by the Funcinpec Party.

"The NEC is currently examining the CNRP’s complaints,"he said. “The NEC allowed observers to verify various documents received from the polling stations in Kratie.”

The NEC will also verify documents reported from three other provinces on Friday, he added.

The NEC's preliminary election results showed that Cambodian People's Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen won 68 seats while the CNRP had only won 55 seats.
 

The opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) had immediately rejected the NEC's initial official poll results saying that there were serious irregularities with the election.