Cambodia’s Parliament voted without exception to modify an election law on Friday to punish anyone who boycotts next month’s poll, which critics have conveyed will be fake because of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s efforts to designate out all opposition. Mr Hun Sen, who has had power in Cambodia exceeding three decades, last week declared the nation’s Parliament to revisit the law so that anyone who skips voting in the general election on July 23 will be barred from contesting any future elections. “person desiring to stand for election have to take part in voting events prior to their mandate,” Mr Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, said in a statement posted on his official Facebook page after the vote in Parliament.
The amendments enforce fines and give punishment to persons who disturb the voter registration process…(and) the election,” he added. At the last election in 2018, Mr Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won all of the parliamentary seats, having scored 4.8 million votes out of the 6.9 million cast. Mr Hun Sen’s administration has rejected focusing the opposition party people. In the beginning of month, The election commission said that anyone convincing people to skip the voting would have to give fine or will be sent to jal. The CPP will be enforced next month, after the election commission denied the sole opposition Candlelight Party from ruling, recognizing inefficient paperwork