On the morning of Thursday, 22nd October 2026, at 9:00 a.m. at the meeting hall of the National Election Committee (NEC), a meeting was held under the presidency of His Excellency Prach Chan, the NEC Chairman, to review and approve the minutes of the NEC’s meeting, the calendar for recruitment, appointment, staff/official training, and human resources demand plan for 2027 and the minute regarding the reviewing and the evaluating on the request for decorations of NEC’s civil servants and the long-term contract officials for 2026 as well as the documents to be used and disseminated for the Election of Commune/Sangkat Councils, 6th Mandate, 2027.
After having listened to the reports from the Technical Departments under the NEC General Secretariat regarding the documents included in the agenda, the NEC’s meeting discussed each item of the agenda in details and raised comments on revising some contents and wordings and the NEC’s meeting approved as follows:
1. Agenda Item 1: The NEC’s meeting reviewed, revised and approved the minutes of the NEC meeting held on 18th August and 8th September 2026.
2. Agenda Item 2: Upon listening to the report from the Technical Departments under the General Secretariat of the NEC, the NEC’s meeting reviewed and revised on the calendar for recruitment, staff/official appointment and revised some wordings and approved the human resources demand plan and the calendar for recruitment, appointment and staff/official training for the Election of Commune/Sangkat Councils, 6th Mandate, 2027. According to the approved plan, in upcoming 2027, the NEC will recruit the staff members of the Provincial/Capital Election Commissions (PECs), the Commune/Sangkat Election Commissions (CECs), CECs assistant and the Polling Stations and Ballot Counting Stations for the Election of Commune/Sangkat Councils, the 6th Mandate, 2027.
3. Agenda Item 3: After reviewing the minute, evaluating the request for decorations, and listening to the report from the Chief of the NEC Candidate Review and Evaluation Commission for Decorations, the NEC’s meeting approved the request for decorations to 156 NEC management teams and civil servants and 180 long-term contract officials. The decorations to be requested are as follows:
- Grand Order of National Merit
- Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Cambodia
- Knight Grand Officer of the Royal Order of Cambodia
- Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Monisaraphon
- Knight Grand Officer of the Royal Order of Monisaraphon
- Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Monisaraphon
- Knight Officer of the Royal Order of Monisaraphon
- Knight of the Royal Order of Monisaraphon
- Grand Order of Gold Medal Labor
- Grand Order of Silver Medal Labor
- Grand Order of Bronze Medal Labor.
4. Agenda Item 4: the NEC’s meeting reviewed and revised certain points and approved 8 types of sample of documents for the Election of Commune/Sangkat Councils, 6th Mandate, 2027 as follows:
- Application form for the registration of the lists of political party’s candidates and decision of the CECs and attached documents, while submit the registration of candidate lists (F.1008)
- Receipt of application and file document
- Minute on the disclosure of preliminary lists of political party’s candidates
- Minute on the disclosure of official lists of political party’s candidates
- Minute on the disclosure of the drawing of lots to determine the order of candidates lists on ballot papers in commune/Sangkat (F.1121)
- Application form for the registration of political party’s agent (F.1007)
- Computerized individual and list confirmation document, which is included with the candidate’s photo and QR code as well as manual individual and list confirmation document, to be certified by the commune/Sangkat Chief to confirm that the concerned candidates have registered to vote and their name appeared on the voter lists
- Sample of identification card for political party’s agent, identification card of national election observer, identification card of mobile national observer, identification card of international observer and identification card of special guests.
5. Agenda Item 5: the NEC’s meeting reviewed and revised certain points, and approved 6 publication materials to be used and disseminated in the Election of Commune/Sangkat Councils, 6th Mandate, 2027, including:
- The NEC bulletin format
- Format of political party platform bulletin
- Leaflets format on the political parties contesting election
- Leaflets on marking in favor of political party on ballot papers
- Media pass of national and international journalists
- Certificate of appreciation for media outlets.
6. Agenda 6: His Excellency Prach Chan, the NEC Chairman, advised the Technical Departments to use clear wording to prevent reader or listener from misunderstanding in daily news coverage regarding the voter lists revision and voter registration. Furthermore, His Excellency noticed that as of now, the number of applicants having their biometric data updated remains low if compared with the recorded number of biometric data update in 2025. His Excellency advised the Technical Departments as well as the NEC members, who went to observe the process of voter lists revision and voter registration 2026 at commune/Sangkat to push the work toward to achieve the targeted plan.
After NEC members expressed their respective views on issues and reasons behind the low numbers of biometric data update, the NEC’s meeting decided to instruct the voter registration team and village chiefs to maximize local dissemination efforts, particularly ensuring that citizens understand the difficulties on election day if they do not come to update their biometric data (photograph and thumbprints) in 2026.
The NEC meeting was concluded by His Excellency Prach Chan, the NEC Chairman at 11:44 a.m. on the same day.
