First, Rainsy created “the 17% of
disfranchised voters,” back in February 2012, and then he created “the
10% fictional voters,” in January 2013 in order to create an illusion
that the opposition “must be projected to win the July 2013 election”
when adding the 31% of popular vote that the opposition won during the
last commune election. He cooked up those numbers to be used as the
sources of reference for his call to foreign observers to stay away from
the July legislative election in Cambodia and to foreigners not to lend
legitimacy to the result of the July election. Though humanity has a
saying that “number doesn’t lie,” however the numbers that are cooked by
Rainsy to be used as the sources of reference by Rainsy open to
question the honesty and integrity of this individual. Moreover this
proves unequivocally the notoriously manipulative nature of Rainsy.
Foreigners are not dump to be misled by Rainsy, but some foreigners are
smart enough to use Rainsy to advance their own agenda whether at their
home country or internationally, and Suyra Subedi is no exception.
It seemed to me that the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) is
operating and moving as a political party but Rainsy is deteriorating as
a politician. Short of otherwise information the CNRP will participate
in the July 2013 general election, but Rainsy will not. He lamented the
fact that he had been sentenced to heavy prison term, forced into
self-exile to avoid being incarcerated, denied of civic and political
rights for being a convicted felon on the run, but he cannot prove to
the world that Rainsy and the CNRP are inseparable, a Siamese twin. This
is a nasty reality for him and perhaps for other leaders that
individual is expandable for a number of reasons, and unavoidably for
natural reason.
The July legislative election is not a game, and moreover it is not “a
game that has been fixed in advance,” as so frivolously and
irresponsibly accused by Rainsy. It is a battle that only seasoned
politician and well organized political party can endure and find the
legitimate venue to win, and that legitimacy will be first given to
winners by voters who go to the poll exercising their civic duties
freely. The last commune election was the very recent proof that both
the NEC and the Cambodian citizens have reached their professional
efficiency and civic maturity and they have conducted themselves
admirably, respectively in terms of organizing the electoral process and
behaving at the polling places. International observers and it must be
underlined that they are not “ill informed,” as a condescending Rainsy
rates them, will not be discouraged by Rainsy’s call to avoid coming to
Cambodia because of those fictitious numbers cooked up by Rainsy. Both
international and local observers, on the other hand will not shy away
from their duties to observe and to render the verdict as to how the
July legislative election in Cambodia is.
Cooking up the numbers is wrong, but when Rainsy cooked up the numbers
to be used as the sources of reference of his very own statement calling
foreigners to avoid observing the July legislative election, that is
despicable. It gives a very bad name to Rainsy who has been pretending
to be a politician and a political party leader for more than three
decades, now.
4 March 2013
Professor Pen Ngoeun
Advisor
University of Puthisastra, Phnom Penh Cambodia