Monitor Discusses Election Day Challenges on 'Hello VOA'

Monitor Discusses Election Day Challenges on 'Hello VOA'
Khemara Sok
Washington
29/03/2007


Hang Puthea, executive director of the Neutral and Impartial Committee
for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia, took questions from "Hello
VOA" callers Thursday morning to discuss the challenges election
officials and observers face in thousands of polling sites
nationwide.

Callers from the US and Cambodia said they were concerned about the
fairness of Cambodia's impending elections, where leaders fro 1,621
communes will be chosen.

Nearly two weeks of campaigning from 12 different parties nationwide
had seen a number of irregularities, Hang Puthea said, and most of
those had not been solved to the satisfaction of all parties.

Hang Puthea reminded listeners that the voting was done in secret, so
people should mark their ballots without fear of retaliation.

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