COMFREL

Legal framework: The amendments to the Law on the Election of Commune/Sangkat Councils, Regulations and Procedures for the 2017 Commune/Sangkat Councils Election in 2015 and the subsequent amendments following

Civil Society Organizations that have collaboratively deployed election observers to monitor the situation of the Commune/Sangkat Councils Election in the 5th mandate, which took place on 5 June 2022, have found election irregularities occurring during the polling process on the voting and counting day as follows:

During the campaign phase of the Commune /Sangkat Councils Election, 5th mandate 2022, the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL) deployed Long-Term Observers in the Capital and provinces to monitor the electoral process.

Four Commune Council elections were held in the years 2002,2007,2012. The regular conduct of elections initiated a democratization process in Cambodia. Cambodia has taken the substantial step in implementing decentralization of the Commune/Sangkat reform for the past decade.