PHNOM PENH: On the day of the 5th commune/Sangkat elections EAC news reporter Anthony Ellis, had the privilege to be able to interview with an international observer Mrs Romana from the CDA delegation.

Q. ‘What is your name and where are you from’?

A. ‘I’m Mrs. Romana from Romania’.

 Q. ‘So today you are an official observer’?

A. Yes with the CDA delegation, which is a worldwide organization political organization?

Q. ‘Have you done this observation in other countries before this election?’

A. ‘Absolutely yeah many observation missions’.

Q. ‘Compared to your other countries how do you find the observation in Cambodia ‘

A. ‘I think if we take this elections I think everything went smoothly, we just assisted all the preparations beforehand and we witness actually the way they prepared the polling station, all the procedures were followed, actually we have check the voters list, everything’s ok the ballot paper so more or less the procedures are as it should be and I see goes really smoothly very fast so they have a good system in place, which is good. They do have several parties representing on the elections. As we thought, told according the region they can produce more or less the parties. I also saw they have observers for each party repetitive, which is also very good so each party is on the ballot paper, has its own party observer. So I do hope that it’s to the end of the voting process everything will go as smoothly as it started’.

Q ‘Is this your first time you have observed a polling and voting in Cambodia?’

A. ‘It’s not the first time in Cambodia I observed the general elections as well back in 2017 so now is the second’.

Q. ‘In 2017 to now have they improved as a comparison?’

A. ‘I think in the procedure they have made it a bit lighter, I Think the process it goes a bit faster in identifying and registering the voters’.

Q. ‘You haven’t notice any irregularities, any problems, or bribery’s or anything like that to say?’

A. ‘Not nothing to my knowledge, and I said, we only witness the start of the process and up to now everything goes smoothly and no irregularities that we have observed so let’s see the rest of the day but I assumed it will go very well.’