While seeing the party cars and trucks campaigning for election in Phnom Penh, I noted that some cars or trucks’ license plates have been removed or hidden by stickers. And those cars drove past traffic policemen. Police not only stopped them but also prevent them into going smoothly to campaign for election.
If the trucks or cars without license plate are driven by ordinary people passing the traffic police, they are absolutely stopped and fined. If the luxury cars are without plates going past policemen, policemen dare not to hail and fine them. Normally, those who drive such luxury cars are really the rich or the powerful person because they afford to buy it.
According to the new road traffic law, the vehicle’s drivers without license plates are subject to a prison sentence of between six days to one month and a fine ranging from 20,000 to 200,000 riel.
I doubted that why traffic policemen dare not to fine those cars and trucks without plates running in city freely for campaigning. Therefore, the enforcement of traffic law is still weak, and only the poor and ordinary people have been punished and fined.
To this point, all people are really able to judge that those parties are violating the traffic law. If they win the election, they will still break the law because all their activities done are uncovered the truth, and the fact. Do you think so? Did you used to observe and notice or not?
I think this is to prevent from accusation of using government’s vehicles to use for party. Actually only car with government’s plate are removed.
If they used government cars for campaigning election by just coving the number plates, it means that they are violating the NEC regulation which does not allow any parties to use government properties. Whether the NEC provides fairness and justice to all political parties during election campaigning?