Cambodian ruling party scores comfortable victory in unopposed election

The ruling People’s Party of Cambodia (CPP) achieved a comfortable victory this Sunday, by adding more than 82.4% of all the votes, in some elections to which he attended without a representative opposition that could stand up to him.

With more than 55% of the ballots counted, the CPP adds 3.5 million supports out of the total 8.2 million votes cast, according to the provisional results released by the Electoral Commission on social networks.

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These data, in elections with a historic turnout, would allow the CPP to win all or the vast majority of the 125 seats in Parliament that were at stake in the vote, as happened in the previous 2018 elections.

The victory of the CPP was taken for granted after the disqualification last May of the main opposition formation candlelight party and the absence of another platform that could challenge the prime minister’s party at the polls, hunsenin power since 1985.

After the closure of the polling stations, around 3:00 p.m. local time (8:00 GMT), Hun Sen himself thanked the Cambodians for their support in an audio message posted on television.

The second in the elections, which could win a seat, would be the monarchical formation functionpecwith 9% of the votes, in a scrutiny where the large number of invalid ballots stands out, 5.6%, which outnumber those reached by the other 15 political platforms that participated in the day.

The absence of a credible opposition, the bias of the Electoral Committee in favor of the ruling party and the harassment of independent information media are some of the arguments for which 17 international organizations specialized in electoral processes have described as “farce” these elections.

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hunsen He has advanced on several occasions that this will be the last time he will go to the polls and that, within an unspecified period, he will hand over power to his eldest son, Hün Manetwho at 45 years old made his debut in the political arena today and led the CPP in the Cambodian capital.

Hun Manet, a four-star general of the Cambodian Army Trained at the US Military Academy of west pointhas recently carved out a public image of a statesman closely linked to his father’s legacy.

Source: Elcomercio

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