(23 Jul 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ta Khmau, Cambodia - 23 July 2023
1. Various of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen arriving and voting
2. Various of voters queuing and voting
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nan Sy, former member of parliament:
"I think the people need stability and they need... how to be, development a country and then peace and importantly, stability. Without stability, political, I think we cannot talk about education. We cannot talk about development."
4. Various of election observers
STORYLINE:
Election voting is underway in Cambodia with incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen and his party all but assured a landslide victory thanks to the effective suppression and intimidation of any real opposition that critics say has made a farce of democracy in the Southeast Asian nation.
Arriving at the Ta Khmao school, Hun Sen cast his vote surrounded by election observers.
The European Union, United States and other Western countries refused to send observers, saying the election lacked the conditions to be considered free and fair.
That left only international officials from Russia, China and Guinea-Bissau on hand to watch as Hun Sun voted at a polling station in his home district outside of the capital, Phnom Penh.
He held his ballot high for all to see, before depositing it into the silver metal box and leaving the station, pausing to take selfies and shake hands with supporters outside.
The longest-serving leader in Asia, Hun Sen has steadily consolidated power with his strong-arm tactics over the last 38 years.
But, at age 70, he has suggested he will hand off the premiership during the upcoming five-year term to his oldest son, Hun Manet, perhaps as early as the first month after the elections.
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