As the National Election is approaching, Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen has once again called on all eligible voters to go to the polls in a free and fair manner.

The Premier made the appeal while he and French Ambassador to Cambodia, H.E. Jacques Pellet, were presiding over the inauguration ceremony of Memorial for the Dead of World War I (1914-1918), known in Khmer as “Roup Pi”, located at the Léopold Sédar Senghor park in Sangkat Sras Chak, Khan Daun Penh, in front of the Embassy of France in Phnom Penh this morning.

“I would like to take this opportunity to appeal to all compatriots to go to vote on Sunday, July 23, 2023 to choose the political party and leader you love and believe that they can lead the country toward peace, racial harmony, development in all sectors and more prosperity at present and in the future,” he stressed.

Cambodia has been conducting a three-week-long election campaign smoothly with security, safety, good order and without violence, despite some complaints, since July 1, according to the National Election Committee (NEC).

A total of 9,710,645 eligible voters, of them 5,161,906 are women, will cast their votes in 23,789 polling stations throughout the country.

A total of 18 political parties have been contesting for the National Assembly’s 125 seats, including the Cambodian People’s Party, Cambodian Youth Party, Khmer United National Party, Dharmacracy Party, Democracy Power Party, Cambodian Nationality Party, Khmer United Party, Khmer Conservative Party, FUNCINPEC Party, Beehive Social Democratic Party, People Purpose Party, Ekpheap Cheat Khmer Party, Women’s Party for Women, Khmer Anti-Poverty Party, Khmer Economic Development Party, Cambodia Indigenous People’s Democracy Party, Grassroots Democratic Party, and Khmer Farmers Party.

Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP)