The UN Secretary General has called on Southeast Asian nations to ensure “democratic space and freedom of expression” and hold “transparent and free elections.”
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia called into question the “genuineness” of the general election in July, which maintained the ruling Cambodian People’s Party decades-long position in power and “consigned multiparty liberal democracy to history for the next five years”.https://bit.ly/2Pcym1b;