Cambodian parties expect draft election law by month’s end

Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties expect to finalize a draft of the nation’s new election law by the end of the month as the centerpiece of key reforms promised in a July agreement that ended a nearly one-year political crisis, an official said Monday. “The two parties hope to finalize the combined draft law by Sept. 29,” Deputy Prime Minister Bin Chhin said following Monday’s meeting between officials from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) in the capital Phnom Penh. Bin Chhin had led a CPP working team in discussions on the role of the revamped national electoral body with his CNRP counterparts. …

Joshua Lipes
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