September 30, 2006
Roundup: Cambodia's Funcinpec extends olive branches to CPP as reshuffle delayed
Cambodia's co-ruling Funcinpec Party in recent days faded its criticism of the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) and extended olive branches for reconciliation, while the CPP-dominating National Assembly and the Senate postponed their votes to next week about Prime Minister Hun Sen's proposals to replace 19 Funcinpec senior officials in the government due to their impotency.
On Thursday, Funcinpec chairman Prince Norodom Ranariddh told reporters that the ambassadors of Singapore, France and the U.S. had encouraged him to maintain the cooperation between his party and CPP for the sake of the kingdom's political stability.
"All the ambassadors who I met wanted political stability in Cambodia through the continuation of the strengthening of the two parties' cooperation," he said in a radio speech.
"I told the three ambassadors that Funcinpec and myself intend to maintain cooperation between CPP and Funucinpec, and the good relations between Hun Sen and I," he added.
Hun Sen has not responded to his remarks yet.
Earlier on Wednesday, Funcinpec issued a statement to deny Information Minister Khieu Kanharith's charges that the party intended to dissolve the coalition government by conniving its officials not to cooperate with their CPP colleagues on certain issues.
Funcinpec would intentionally keep the good ties between itself and CPP and those between Ranariddh and Hun Sen, said the statement, adding that the party would continue its cooperation with CPP for the sake of the country's stability.
Meanwhile, Ranariddh said in a speech during this week's inspection of Pursat Province that CPP should pay more respect to Funcinpec and directly dismissed Hun Sen's earlier call that he hand over his chairmanship to more eligible person for he missed his duty by staying overseas for long time and humiliated his party and family by having secret mistress.
The Funcinpec-CPP wrestling could be traced to months ago when Ranariddh frequently criticized the government for inefficiency and corruption.
In return, Hun Sen on Sept. 19 proposed the reshuffle of 19 senior government posts held by Funcinpec for the National Assembly and the Senate to vote on.
Under Hun Sen's proposal, senior officials' changes for the National Assembly to vote on included Serei Kosal who was to be replaced by Ly Touch as senior minister, Chea Chanboribo by Nouv Sovathero at the Ministry of Information, Tuot Lux by Meach Sam An at the Justice Ministry, Kassie Neou by Chan Houn at the Ministry of Justice and Pok Than by Tea Chen at the Ministry of Education, according to reports by the Cambodian Daily.
The secretaries of state to be replaced included Nuth Nin Doeun at the Ministry of Tourism, Hor Sopheap at the Ministry of Information, Sok San at the Ministry of Labor, Tann Sithan at the Ministry of Water Resources, and Nge Chhay Ly at the Ministry of Commerce.
Hun Sen also issued a letter to Senate President and Acting Head of State Chea Sim to call for the appointment of nine Funcinpec Party members to replace their party members as under- secretary of states.
Right after the proposal was declared, Funcinpec issued a statement to reject Hun Sen's reshuffle proposal, saying that the shakeup was not based on national interests, but on personal interests as the officials had done nothing wrong.
"The removal contradicts the contract between Prince Ranariddh and Prime Minister Hun Sen in the protocol agreement between CPP and Funcinpec signed on June 30, 2004 (to form the coalition government of Cambodia)," it said.
The National Assembly and the Senate have delayed their votes on the proposals from this week to next week. The reasons are not clear yet.
Local analysts told Xinhua that Funcinpec were now separated into two factions, with one still loyal to the prince and the other much more closer to Hun Sen, and prime minister's proposal for reshuffle could be viewed as a precise calculation and then manipulation of the contradictions between CPP and Funcinpec as well as the dog fight within Funcinpec itself.
The current government, the National Assembly and the Senate are dominated by CPP while Funcinpec just has an inferior share of seats.
After the kingdom was established years ago, Ranariddh headed its first government, but later lost it to Hun Sen. The Funcinpec's number of seats in the government, the National Assembly and the Senate also saw a sliding trend year by year.
Source: Xinhua
Roundup: Cambodia's Funcinpec extends olive branches to CPP as reshuffle delayed
Cambodia's co-ruling Funcinpec Party in recent days faded its criticism of the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) and extended olive branches for reconciliation, while the CPP-dominating National Assembly and the Senate postponed their votes to next week about Prime Minister Hun Sen's proposals to replace 19 Funcinpec senior officials in the government due to their impotency.
On Thursday, Funcinpec chairman Prince Norodom Ranariddh told reporters that the ambassadors of Singapore, France and the U.S. had encouraged him to maintain the cooperation between his party and CPP for the sake of the kingdom's political stability.
"All the ambassadors who I met wanted political stability in Cambodia through the continuation of the strengthening of the two parties' cooperation," he said in a radio speech.
"I told the three ambassadors that Funcinpec and myself intend to maintain cooperation between CPP and Funucinpec, and the good relations between Hun Sen and I," he added.
Hun Sen has not responded to his remarks yet.
Earlier on Wednesday, Funcinpec issued a statement to deny Information Minister Khieu Kanharith's charges that the party intended to dissolve the coalition government by conniving its officials not to cooperate with their CPP colleagues on certain issues.
Funcinpec would intentionally keep the good ties between itself and CPP and those between Ranariddh and Hun Sen, said the statement, adding that the party would continue its cooperation with CPP for the sake of the country's stability.
Meanwhile, Ranariddh said in a speech during this week's inspection of Pursat Province that CPP should pay more respect to Funcinpec and directly dismissed Hun Sen's earlier call that he hand over his chairmanship to more eligible person for he missed his duty by staying overseas for long time and humiliated his party and family by having secret mistress.
The Funcinpec-CPP wrestling could be traced to months ago when Ranariddh frequently criticized the government for inefficiency and corruption.
In return, Hun Sen on Sept. 19 proposed the reshuffle of 19 senior government posts held by Funcinpec for the National Assembly and the Senate to vote on.
Under Hun Sen's proposal, senior officials' changes for the National Assembly to vote on included Serei Kosal who was to be replaced by Ly Touch as senior minister, Chea Chanboribo by Nouv Sovathero at the Ministry of Information, Tuot Lux by Meach Sam An at the Justice Ministry, Kassie Neou by Chan Houn at the Ministry of Justice and Pok Than by Tea Chen at the Ministry of Education, according to reports by the Cambodian Daily.
The secretaries of state to be replaced included Nuth Nin Doeun at the Ministry of Tourism, Hor Sopheap at the Ministry of Information, Sok San at the Ministry of Labor, Tann Sithan at the Ministry of Water Resources, and Nge Chhay Ly at the Ministry of Commerce.
Hun Sen also issued a letter to Senate President and Acting Head of State Chea Sim to call for the appointment of nine Funcinpec Party members to replace their party members as under- secretary of states.
Right after the proposal was declared, Funcinpec issued a statement to reject Hun Sen's reshuffle proposal, saying that the shakeup was not based on national interests, but on personal interests as the officials had done nothing wrong.
"The removal contradicts the contract between Prince Ranariddh and Prime Minister Hun Sen in the protocol agreement between CPP and Funcinpec signed on June 30, 2004 (to form the coalition government of Cambodia)," it said.
The National Assembly and the Senate have delayed their votes on the proposals from this week to next week. The reasons are not clear yet.
Local analysts told Xinhua that Funcinpec were now separated into two factions, with one still loyal to the prince and the other much more closer to Hun Sen, and prime minister's proposal for reshuffle could be viewed as a precise calculation and then manipulation of the contradictions between CPP and Funcinpec as well as the dog fight within Funcinpec itself.
The current government, the National Assembly and the Senate are dominated by CPP while Funcinpec just has an inferior share of seats.
After the kingdom was established years ago, Ranariddh headed its first government, but later lost it to Hun Sen. The Funcinpec's number of seats in the government, the National Assembly and the Senate also saw a sliding trend year by year.
Source: Xinhua
1 comment:
Impotent? All 19 of them? Tell that fool boss of theirs (Ranarid) to give them some VIAGRA! LMAO, j/k.
09/30/06
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[p.s. K'dor gnorb oss hauy, ah lombol yor oss niss, yap main!]
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