Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Funcinpec President, currently enjoying life in France away from the political heat of Phnom Penh (Photo VOA)By Chey Dara
30 March 2006
Sralanh Khmer newspaper
Original title: : "If Samdech Krom Preah Wants To Return as FUNCINPEC Leader, He Must Accept Eight Conditions...; the Prince Is Punished!"
The pro-opposition Sam Rainsy Party [SRP] newspaper Phnom Penh Sralanh Khmer in Cambodian on 30 March carries a report saying FUNCINPEC [National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia] Party officials have "called on Prince Norodom Ranariddh to go into temporary retirement in order to give clean party leaders, with genuine nationalism, the opportunities to reinstate the party's popularity." The majority of those officials are supporters of FUNCINPEC Secretary General Nhiek Bun-chhai.
The FUNCINPEC officials also said that Prince Norodom Sirivudh and Prince Norodom Chakkrapong "should as well take early retirement, because lately, they, too, have played part in plunging FUNCINPEC into a deep abyss."
A dean of the FUNCINPEC Party said, the report adds, "If Prince Ranariddh returned and wanted to hold on the historic party leadership, he should comply with eight conditions that are not too severe." He should:
"1. Put an immediate end to making unilateral decisions;
"2. Stop exploiting FUNCINPEC for his own interests;
"3. Dismiss all the flatters and crawlers;
"4. End the culture of receiving envelops [containing kickbacks],
"5. Stop lending an ear and knowing how to ask for advice from competent elder officials;
"6. Stop behaving like a hooligan, indulging in women and alcohol, and snatching his official's wife (Mrs. Ouk Phalla, the lawful wife of State Minister in Charge of Special Mission Veng Sereivut);
"7. Stop making deceptive promises to the people, the ballot owners, and his own officials; and
"8. End the culture of ingratitude toward the [party] members who are former FUNCINPEC resistance fighters."
The report says the FUNCINPEC officials' desire to have Prince Ranariddh accept those eight conditions is a "good idea that is aimed restoring FUNCINPEC's face, preventing it from sinking like Titanic as the King Father [Sihanouk] predicted last year."
The report also says that Princess Norodom Vacheara, realizing that there is a movement barring Prince Ranariddh from coming back to lead the FUNCINPEC Party anew, asked to "change the FUNCINPEC name and turn the party into a new one as well as returning the name to the former King." She was "displeased with the internal rift among FUNCINPEC officials." She said, "The republicans plundered FUNCINPEC by trying to push the members of the royal family out of politics."
Yu Hockry, who is also a supporter of Nhiek Bun-chhai, said, the report says, FUNCINPEC "should come in out of the rain and become cognizant that the number of its parliamentary seats has dropped from 58 to 48 and that now it has only 26 left."
The FUNCINPEC officials also pointed out that, the report adds, FUNCINPEC might be "restored in time if Nhiek Bun-chhai uses his power as the party secretary general in agreement with principles and ideals without being harassed by Princes Ranariddh, Sirivudh, and Chakkrapong as well as Princess Vichara and the republicans."
When the FUNCINPEC leadership held a meeting a few days ago under Nhiek Bun-chhai's chairmanship, the report says, the members of the royal family "refused to participate." This demonstrates that the FUNCINPEC Party is facing "serious problems."
A FUNCINPEC official disclosed that, the report further says, Nhiek Bun-chhai is leading the party by "following in Prince Ranariddh's footsteps and by attaching importance to the republicans," who have made FUNCINPEC deteriorating as at present. Nhiek Bun-chhai's action is tantamount to "deceiving the FUNCINPEC-defending activists like Prince Ranariddh's."
To conclude, the Sralanh Khmer report says the FUNCINPEC officials also underscored that Nhiek Bun-chhai had to "reorganize the party steering committee and elect its 39 members in accordance with the party's statute. Anyway, he should never dream that there would be the possibilities uniting the republicans with the elder FUNCINPEC members."
The pro-opposition Sam Rainsy Party [SRP] newspaper Phnom Penh Sralanh Khmer in Cambodian on 30 March carries a report saying FUNCINPEC [National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia] Party officials have "called on Prince Norodom Ranariddh to go into temporary retirement in order to give clean party leaders, with genuine nationalism, the opportunities to reinstate the party's popularity." The majority of those officials are supporters of FUNCINPEC Secretary General Nhiek Bun-chhai.
The FUNCINPEC officials also said that Prince Norodom Sirivudh and Prince Norodom Chakkrapong "should as well take early retirement, because lately, they, too, have played part in plunging FUNCINPEC into a deep abyss."
A dean of the FUNCINPEC Party said, the report adds, "If Prince Ranariddh returned and wanted to hold on the historic party leadership, he should comply with eight conditions that are not too severe." He should:
"1. Put an immediate end to making unilateral decisions;
"2. Stop exploiting FUNCINPEC for his own interests;
"3. Dismiss all the flatters and crawlers;
"4. End the culture of receiving envelops [containing kickbacks],
"5. Stop lending an ear and knowing how to ask for advice from competent elder officials;
"6. Stop behaving like a hooligan, indulging in women and alcohol, and snatching his official's wife (Mrs. Ouk Phalla, the lawful wife of State Minister in Charge of Special Mission Veng Sereivut);
"7. Stop making deceptive promises to the people, the ballot owners, and his own officials; and
"8. End the culture of ingratitude toward the [party] members who are former FUNCINPEC resistance fighters."
The report says the FUNCINPEC officials' desire to have Prince Ranariddh accept those eight conditions is a "good idea that is aimed restoring FUNCINPEC's face, preventing it from sinking like Titanic as the King Father [Sihanouk] predicted last year."
The report also says that Princess Norodom Vacheara, realizing that there is a movement barring Prince Ranariddh from coming back to lead the FUNCINPEC Party anew, asked to "change the FUNCINPEC name and turn the party into a new one as well as returning the name to the former King." She was "displeased with the internal rift among FUNCINPEC officials." She said, "The republicans plundered FUNCINPEC by trying to push the members of the royal family out of politics."
Yu Hockry, who is also a supporter of Nhiek Bun-chhai, said, the report says, FUNCINPEC "should come in out of the rain and become cognizant that the number of its parliamentary seats has dropped from 58 to 48 and that now it has only 26 left."
The FUNCINPEC officials also pointed out that, the report adds, FUNCINPEC might be "restored in time if Nhiek Bun-chhai uses his power as the party secretary general in agreement with principles and ideals without being harassed by Princes Ranariddh, Sirivudh, and Chakkrapong as well as Princess Vichara and the republicans."
When the FUNCINPEC leadership held a meeting a few days ago under Nhiek Bun-chhai's chairmanship, the report says, the members of the royal family "refused to participate." This demonstrates that the FUNCINPEC Party is facing "serious problems."
A FUNCINPEC official disclosed that, the report further says, Nhiek Bun-chhai is leading the party by "following in Prince Ranariddh's footsteps and by attaching importance to the republicans," who have made FUNCINPEC deteriorating as at present. Nhiek Bun-chhai's action is tantamount to "deceiving the FUNCINPEC-defending activists like Prince Ranariddh's."
To conclude, the Sralanh Khmer report says the FUNCINPEC officials also underscored that Nhiek Bun-chhai had to "reorganize the party steering committee and elect its 39 members in accordance with the party's statute. Anyway, he should never dream that there would be the possibilities uniting the republicans with the elder FUNCINPEC members."
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