Cambodia's ruling party wins local elections by landslide

Cambodia's ruling party of Prime Minister Hun Sen won Sunday's local elections by a landslide.Sok Eysan, a spokesman of the Cambodian People's Party told Kyodo News that preliminary results suggested the CPP had obtained nearly 100 percent of all the seats in 1,652 communes across the country.He said the turnout stood at nearly 80 percent of the 9.2 million registered voters, who were to pick 11,622 councilors and chiefs in the fifth communal elections held every five years since 2002.The elections with more than 86,000 candidates running from 17 parties were seen as a bellwether for next y…READ FULL ARTICLE