Daphne Chen | Publication date 20 March 2018 | 09:29 ICT
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A Cambodian delegation of lawmakers and NEC members visits polling sites in Moscow on Monday. Facebook
Cambodian election observers declared Russia’s presidential elections to be “free, fair and transparent” in a statement released on Monday.
Officials from the Senate, National Assembly and National Election Committee travelled to Moscow on Sunday and visited a number of precinct-level election commissions on election day.
In its statement, the delegation concluded the election was “in accordance with democratic principles”.
The results of Russia’s election, won in a landslide by President Vladimir Putin, were largely seen as a foregone conclusion. One of the country’s most prominent opposition activists was barred from the ballot and reports of people being ordered to vote by their employers were widespread.
In an email, Astrid Noren-Nilsson, an expert on Cambodian politics at Lund University, said the visit was part of Cambodia’s pivot to Russia and China.
While China offers military and economic support, Russia offers “moral support and legitimacy”, including election monitors, which Russia pledged to send in November, she said.
2 comments:
Cambodia election monitors say Russia’s election ‘free, fair’ and soon the Russian election monitors will say Cambodian's election "free, fair".
One fake democracy country is helping another fake democracy country.
The election monitors for the Cambodian election in July will be the Russians, Chinese and Vietnamese. They will give 10/10 and to declare that the Cambodian election is 1000% free and fair. Sadly, this is how the communists help each other to fool the world and equally sad is that the world will accept it.
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