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Cambodia to form new election committee next week

Xinhua, April 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Cambodia's new National Election Committee (NEC) will be officially formed next Monday after the ruling and opposition parties have agreed on the members of this new independent body, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Monday.

"On April 13, the National Assembly will vote to elect the nine members of the NEC," Sam Rainsy, leader of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), said in a joint press conference after a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng of the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP).

The nine members include four each from the CPP and the CNRP as well as one "neutral", who is not related to political parties.

Sam Rainsy said the two parties had already agreed to choose Hang Puthea, director of election-monitoring group Nicfec, as the "neutral" NEC member after Pung Chhiv Kek, president of local rights group Licadho, declined to accept the position on March 31 due to personal reasons.

"In sum, the two parties have honored all agreed points in the July 22 agreement," he said.

Sar Kheng agreed that the two parties had well complied with the agreement and said the CPP would continue working with the CNRP for the sake of the nation.

The July 22 agreement was reached between Prime Minister Hun Sen and Sam Rainsy to end the opposition's 10-month boycott of parliament after the 2013 national elections.

Under the agreement, the CPP agreed to share power in the National Assembly with the CNRP and to reform the current NEC in order to ensure free and fair elections in the future. Endi