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New campaign to educate Cambodians about June elections
Phnom Penh Post | 10 April 2017
The
National Election Committee (NEC) on Friday launched a radio campaign to
educate Cambodians about upcoming commune elections and to counter
misinformation about the June 4 poll.
According
to an NEC announcement on Friday, the campaign will last through June 6, and
will also broadcast initial election returns. According to the release, the
campaign will air live on FM radio in every province at noon and during the
evenings. Each program will feature a Phnom Penh or provincial election
committee representative who will take questions from callers.
NEC
spokesman Hang Puthea said yesterday that this is the first time the NEC will
use live, interactive radio broadcasts. Previous NEC information campaigns only
involved leaflets, educational spots and loudspeakers mounted on vehicles, he
said.
“The NEC
noticed that each election period there is some [incorrect] information spread
. . . so the
NEC has to work hard to provide the real information to the public to prevent
any deceptive information or political gain,” he said.
Moeun
Tola, head of labour rights group Central, which belongs to a coalition of
civil society observers that intends to monitor the elections for
irregularities, said he welcomed the NEC radio campaign, though it should have
started earlier.
“Now it
is close to election day . . . so we
are not sure if this broadcast can help the public to understand about the
election procedure,” he said.
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