“I won’t go to vote,” said Sovanny*, describing how she felt crushed earlier this year when Cambodia’s only credible opposition party was disqualified from elections.
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“Why would I vote when there’s only one party?” the 45-year-old street food vendor said of the national election in Cambodia. “It’s a waste of time.
“In a boxing ring, there needs to be two competitors … but when there’s only one person, what is the point of that?” she said.
In full: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/22/why-would-i-votecambodians-quietly-question-elections-value
