Prime Minister (PM) Of Cambodia Hun Sen (Between)The credibility of Cambodia's general election will be judged from what political opposition groups be allowed to participate in full and fair. "Phnom Penh (Reuters)-the United States on Tuesday urged Cambodia to allow opposition leader who is being ostracized, the Sam Rainsy Party of, to compete in the general election this year.
"The credibility of Cambodia's general election will be judged from what political opposition groups be allowed to participate fully and fairly," said United States Deputy Secretary of State for democracy and human rights workers, Michael Posner, the AFP report.
"The Government should take real steps to ensure that all political participants--who represent different views--can compete honestly in July elections, including Sam Rainsy Party of," he said.
The Sam Rainsy Party of, which is the main opponent is graded Prime Minister HunSen, currently living in France to avoid jail on a series of verdicts that are assessed by observers based on political motivation.
Leaders of the opposition groups that is a National Rescue Party Chairman of Cambodia, which was formed last year to challenge the power of Hun Sen who has endured for 28 years.
Posner said that the elections in July, "will test the Government's commitment to support multi-party democracy".
The Sam Rainsy Party of, 63, will be jailed for a total of 11 years when he returned to his country.
He terminated 10 years in prison for "in absentia" on 2010 top broadcasting map border with Viet Nam. The verdict was later reduced to seven years.
Rainsy Party of then convicted on the two cases are different, the one relating to the border of Viet Nam and the other because it had accused the Minister of Foreign Affairs as a member of the Khmer Rouge regime which is brutal at the end of the 1970s.
In November, the General Election Committee of Cambodia's Sam Rainsy Party of announced that it could not be a candidate in the elections because of the legal issues involved.
The Government insisted that Rainsy Party of having to undergo a punishment in prison.
Hun Sen (62) currently has led Cambodia since 1985, and pledged to remain in Office until he was 90.
In the last parliamentary elections in 2008, the political vehicle of Hun Sen, the Cambodian people's Party, managed to seize 90 of 123 seats in the National Assembly. (G005/RN)
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