Activist: Disunity Could Doom Small Parties
By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original re****t from Phnom Penh
08 February 2008
Small parties allied against the ruling Cambodian People's Party will
be beaten in July's election if they don't stand together, a leading
rights activist said Friday.
Thun Saray, president of the rights group Adhoc, said that divided
parties will divide the votes, helping the CPP win parliamentary
seats.
"If other non-CPP political parties cannot make an alliance to
participate in the race on a one-on-one basis with the ruling CPP in
the coming 2008 election, and if the CPP is able to keep its 47
percent [of parliamentary seats], as in the 2003 election, we will see
the CPP get more than their current 73 parliamentarian seats," Thun
Saray said. "Because there were only two parties to receive the
remaining seats in the previous election. But now there are four
parties."
Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said Friday the statements put
the CPP in an inaccurate adversarial light.
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