Opposition Party Navigates Police and Military to Campaign

A May 2-16 campaign for local elections, to be held May 18, took off over the weekend in Cambodia in spite of heavy police and military presence, and a ban on public gathering. On May 4, the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) walked, biked and drove with blaring loud speakers in the eastern province of Kratie, as well as in the capital Phnom Penh, to campaign for municipal, provincial, city and district council seats.