The 5th Senate Election 2024 was conducted on Feb. 25 smoothly in a free and fair manner, affirmed H.E. Prach Chan, Chairman of the National Election Committee (NEC).
At a dissemination meeting with stakeholders on the election’s general situation at the NEC’s headquarters here this evening, H.E. Prach Chan said that 11,730 out of the 11,747 eligible voters or 99.8 percent, went to vote at the 33 polling stations in the eight regional constituencies throughout Cambodia.
This non-universal suffrage was held under the witness of 228 political parties’ observers, 760 local observers from 18 associations and NGOs, 30 foreign observers and 306 journalists, including 25 foreign journalists from 14 media organisations, he pointed out.
‘The preliminary results are expected to be released on Feb. 29, while the official ones will be around Mar. 4 to 6, 2024,’ he underlined.
According to unofficial results, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won a landslide victory.
Besides CPP, other three political partie
s, namely the Khmer Will Party, the FUNCINPEC Party, and the National Power Party, also competed for 58 among the 62 seats at the Senate, while two of the remaining seats will be appointed by His Majesty the King and the other two by the National Assembly.
The 4th Senate Election took place in 2018, during which CPP won all the 58 seats.
The Senate of Cambodia was established on Mar. 25, 1999 with 61 senators. At that time, the senate members were appointed, not by election, of them 33 were from the CPP, 21 from the FUNCINPEC Party and seven from the Sam Rainsy Party.
Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse
HCM City: An event named ‘Live Green with Gen G Festival’ was held in Ho Chi Minh City on February 24 to wrap up and mark the success of the second season of the ‘Live Green and Wellness with Gen G’ campaign launched by Pananasonic towards a green, wellness and sustainable lifestyle for young generations, pioneering in solving the problem of global warming.
Winners of the ‘Gen G Ambassador Programme’ – a playground for those who are keen to study and propose their own initiatives addressing issues relating to climate change and the environment – were announced. At the event, the winners talked about their initiatives on emission reduction.
The campaign is one of many initiatives being undertaken toward realising the Panasonic Group’s commitment to ‘Panasonic Green Impact’, which was announced in January, 2022. The group committed to reaching net zero by 2030 in Panasonic operating companies worldwide and reducing CO2 emissions by 300 million tonnes throughout its value chain by 2050, equivalent to 1% of cur
rent global CO2 emissions.
In December 2022, Panasonic Vietnam officially launched its ‘Live Green and Wellness with Gen G’ campaign to inspire young Vietnamese people as well as other members of the public to lead an environment-friendly and comprehensively healthy lifestyle, contributing to the wellness and sustainable development of Vietnam. ‘Gen G’ is Panasonic’s new concept of a Leading Green Generation.
The campaign included a variety of online and offline activities aimed at promoting awareness, providing empowerment, and facilitating capacity building for Vietnamese youth in relation to the topics of the environment and climate change.
The Centre for Natural Resources and Environment and Communication under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, other partners such as the United Nations Development Programme, NGOs and youth networks of the Central Youth Union implemented activities including “Gen G Unitour’, ‘Green Lifestyle Challenges’ and ‘Gen G Ambassador Programme’.
“Gen G Unitour”
is the main activityorganised into a series of events at six major universities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, aiming to inspire green, sustainable lifestyles of Gen G. The events attracted more than 1,600 students and young people, collected more than 900kg of used batteries, 626kg of paper boxes, more than 2,500 plastic bottles./.
Source: Vietnam News Agency