Interior ministry calls for expired ID cards to be updated ahead of election

Police officers take photos of their local residents to make ID cards at O’Russey IV commune in the capital’s Prampi Makara district. - The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): The Ministry of Interior is calling for the holders of more than one million expired identification cards to apply for new cards as soon as possible. The national elections will be held in July of this year.

In a Feb 3 notice, the ministry said that as of the end of last year, a total of 12,309,131 ID cards had been issued, 11,097,867 of them to those who had reached the age of 18.