Low voter turnout in Upper House election may reflect an indifference to democracy

In May 1993, general elections were held in Cambodia. Voter turnout was 89.56 percent.

People who don’t have democracy want it — very badly. Traumatized by 30 years of war, genocide, dictatorship, hunger — just about every evil into which a state can sink — Cambodians swarmed polling stations to elect, under U.N. auspices, a postwar government.

A measure of their eagerness is the obstacles they had to defy. Poor transportation was the least of them.

In full: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/national/media-national/low-voter-turnout-upper-house-election-may-reflect-indifference-democracy/

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