Commune officials in Pailin have stopped the Candlelight Party from installing four party banners, claiming that other political parties had reserved the same locations but refusing to name the parties.
Two opposition officials have been fired from state jobs after they stood in the recent election, according to the Candlelight Party.
Election NGO Comfrel mustered fewer than 2,000 observers on Sunday; Nicfec only around 20 — both mere fractions of total polling places. Political pressure and loss of funding have decimated groups that once provided leading assessments of Cambodian elections.
The head of Poipet’s commune election committee said she had rejected the complaint because it didn’t identify any individuals.
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