Cambodia’s Buddhist Monks Find a Second Calling: Political Correspondent
A government-aligned news media outlet reported that the Cambodian People’s Party, led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, had won 1,163 of the
local administrations, while the Cambodia National Rescue Party gained control of 482, or around 30 percent, up from 3 percent.
" Mr. Nee said, adding later that "people are very engaged and people are not feeling intimidated." Unusually large crowds gathered in Phnom Penh on Sunday afternoon to watch the votes be counted, and late in the day the National Election Committee announced
that turnout had been a record 85.7 percent of 7.8 million registered voters. that The people are eager to see change,
The violence against people, the land abuses, the forest clearances
and the corruption they did not show on television." The government of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party operates or has influence over all of the country’s television stations; the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has spent years trying to get a license to operate its own channel, without success.
Sovath said that The Cambodian People’s Party has many television stations
and facilities already, so we are helping people who don’t have anything, who are poor,
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Wearing an orange robe and speaking calmly into his smartphone, the Venerable Luon Sovath eased
his way through the throngs of people gathered outside Polling Station 867 in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital.
By JULIA WALLACEJUNE 4, 2017
As Cambodians headed to the polls on Sunday for crucial nationwide elections of over
11,000 local officials, the Venerable Luon Sovath was watching — and recording.