Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Five Political Parties To Contest in the Capital/provincial, Municipal/District/Khan Council Election in May

19 March 2014

Cambodia National Election Committee (NEC) has announced that five political parties have been registered to contest in the Capital/Provincial, Municipal/District/Khan Council Election of 2nd Mandate to be held on 18 May 2014.

The five registered political parties are (i) Cambodian People’s Party (CPP); (ii) Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP); (iii) FUNCINPEC; (iv) Democratic Republic Party (DRP) and (v) League for Democracy Party (LDP).

The ruling CPP have registered its candidates for the 25 provinces/capital city and the 197 cities/districts/Khan across the country; while the main opposition CNRP for only 24 provinces/capital city (except Kep province) and 195 cities/districts/Khan; FUNCIPEC, the royalist party, for 4 provinces and 29 cities/districts/Khan; DRP for 2 provinces and 4 cities/districts/Khan and LDP for only a district in Siem Reap province, it said.

The Capital/Provincial, Municipal/District/Khan Council Election is a non-universal suffrage. Only the current 11,459 Commune/Sangkat council members are eligible to vote for the 393 Capital/Provincial council members and 2,931 Municipal/District/Khan council members.

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