STATEMENT ON ELECTION ENVIRONMENT FOR THE 3^rd MANDATE COMMUNE/SANGKAT ELECTION

Phnom Penh, June 4, 2012

On June 3, 2012, Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (NICFEC) deployed 2,000 observers, including people with disabilities, in twenty-one (21) provinces/municipalities to monitor the 3rd Mandate Commune/Sangkat Election process in order to provide information and analyze the election process as well as to improve the process in the future. In addition, seven (7) of the observers were mobile observers and twenty (20) were foreign observers