PHNOM PENH: Incense drifted across a classroom as Cambodian election workers sought spiritual blessings for their makeshift polling station, ahead of a vote that Prime Minister Hun Sen needs no divine intervention to win.

Sunday's election has been widely condemned as a sham by international observers, with any real opposition eliminated, allowing the Cambodian leader to prepare to hand the reins to his son Hun Manet after four decades of iron-fisted rule.

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