PHNOM PENH, 31 August 2013 (The Cambodia Herald) -- Opposition party leader call for negotiations with senior leaders of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) over the alleged election irregularities and results.
Sam Rainsy, Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader, sent his request letter to CPP President, Chea Sim on Friday.
Standing
on the spirit of resolving remaining problems peacefully in the spirit
of national reconciliation and unification...I support any negotiating
meetings between the top leaders of the Cambodia National Rescue Party
(CNRP) and the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) in order to find solutions
to the irregularities of the fifth parliamentary election on July 28
and to reach political reforms for our country's progress, according to
Sam Rainsy's letter.
The opposition's negotiation request letter
was sent two days after Chea Sim, said that the CPP still wanted to
renew poll solution talks with the CNRP in spirit of national
reconciliation.
“Previous talks between the two parties didn’t
bring any positive results because the CPP strongly wanted the National
Election Committee to be the decision maker, while the CNRP wanted an
independent committee to be the referee,” said Sam Rainsy.
“I
support Sam Dach's [Chea Sim] request to conduct peaceful talks between
the senior leaders of the CPP and the CNRP to find a solution to the
election issues,” he added.
The NEC's initial poll results showed that the ruling CPP won the the majority vote in the election by winning 68 out of the 123 seats in parliament while the opposition CNRP only gained 55 seats.
However the CNRP rejected the results, claiming that according to their calculations, they should have won 63 seats.
Sam
Rainsy had announced, this past Thursday, that the CNRP will hold a
"non-violent" mass demonstration protesting the election results on
September 7, if the talks on the formation of a poll inquiry committee
are not resumed, a day before the NEC will give their final official
poll results.
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