Cambodians voting in general elections
General elections have started in the southeast Asian country of Cambodia, with the incumbent Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen likely to win.
Voters began voting at 22,967 polling stations across the country on Sunday to choose 125 members of parliament from candidates hailing from a total of 20 political parties.
Some 8.38 million people are eligible to vote in the elections.
“Polling began at 7:00 am local time and is due to close at 3:00 pm,” said Dim Sovannarom from the National Election Committee (NEC), which runs the vote.
Sovannarom said “more than 60 percent” of the eligible voters are expected to turn out to vote in the country’s sixth general elections. In the fifth elections, in 2013, voter turnout was recorded at 69.6 percent.
Last year, the country’s main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was dissolved.
Critics say the dissolution of the CNRP marks the decimation of democracy in the southeast Asian country.
Meanwhile, the main party in the elections is the ruling Cambodian People’s Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is expected to secure a comfortable win with an almost non-existent opposition.
The preliminary results are expected to be announced on Sunday evening.
The Southeast Asian country has held general elections once every five years since 1993, when it emerged from decades of war marked by death and destruction at the hands of a dictatorial regime.
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