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DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 2, 1993                   TAG: 9306020021
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA                                LENGTH: Short

CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT PROTESTS ELECTION RESULTS

The government, facing a possible loss of power, on Tuesday demanded that voting be repeated in four of 21 provinces to correct alleged election irregularities.

The demand was followed up by conflicting statements. A senior government party official said the election results would not be recognized without a second round of balloting, but a government spokesman said they would be.

The six-day election, organized by the United Nations under the terms of a 1991 peace accord, concluded Friday. With about 60 percent of ballots counted, the opposition FUNCINPEC party had 42.3 percent of the vote and the ruling Cambodian People's Party, 37.2 percent, U.N. spokesman Eric Falt said Tuesday. Final results were expected this week.

The election was for a 120-member assembly that is to adopt a democratic constitution within three months, then form a government. U.N. officials and diplomats have expressed concern that the ruling party, installed by Vietnam in 1979, would not share power.

by CNB