CNRP to monitor voter registration stations for non-Khmer speakers

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Meas Sokchea and Ananth Baliga

 

The Cambodia National Rescue Party plans to send 2,000 observers to voter registration stations next month to monitor for “foreigners” who possess ID cards but can’t speak Khmer or produce other relevant citizenship documents – a move analysts called worrying given longstanding discrimination against ethnic Vietnamese.

 

Legal complaints will be filed against those failing to meet the criteria, opposition party officials said yesterday following an internal workshop on nationality and immigration, a topic that has recently flared on social media.

 

CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said that while foreigners with national ID cards have the right to register, if they cannot speak Khmer or produce the royal decree for their naturalisation, the party would turn to the Law on Nationality as a basis for its complaints.

 

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