Various views have been expressed regarding the appeal launched by the SRP to double the salary of its newly elected 28 commune chiefs and to provide funds to these communes to improve service delivery.
With respect to different criticisms expressed by the National Assembly president and the Committee for Free and Fair Elections— which have respectively accused the SRP of trying to establish a parallel state and of playing finance orientated politics— I wish to remind the public that SRP message during the April 1, 2007 commune election was to fight corruption and to improve service delivery. Both promised actions were aimed at curbing corruption at the local level and addressing the lack of public reforms, long promised by the government.
With inadequate remuneration, insufficient modes of transportation and without even a proper office, the newly elected officials, who received the trust of the people in their communes, simply cannot perform their tasks without relying on their family's income. To expect civil servants to work for less than $1 a day is not realistic when the cost of living is constantly on the increase.
Women who are bravely making many sacrifices to join politics need even mere financial support as they perform multiple roles and functions inside and outside the home.
The SRP believes in and fully supports a system of proper remuneration as a form of encouragement for better productivity and an increase in quality of service. The winners from such a policy will be the people.
Finally, the SRP is responsible to its own activists who have demonstrated great courage and made sacrifices for the development of their communes. The SRP has made this appeal for funding in good faith and the contributions received will be used in the most transparent way. Elections are over. Let’s get to work for the benefit of our people.
Mu Sochua,
Secretary-general,
SRP
With respect to different criticisms expressed by the National Assembly president and the Committee for Free and Fair Elections— which have respectively accused the SRP of trying to establish a parallel state and of playing finance orientated politics— I wish to remind the public that SRP message during the April 1, 2007 commune election was to fight corruption and to improve service delivery. Both promised actions were aimed at curbing corruption at the local level and addressing the lack of public reforms, long promised by the government.
With inadequate remuneration, insufficient modes of transportation and without even a proper office, the newly elected officials, who received the trust of the people in their communes, simply cannot perform their tasks without relying on their family's income. To expect civil servants to work for less than $1 a day is not realistic when the cost of living is constantly on the increase.
Women who are bravely making many sacrifices to join politics need even mere financial support as they perform multiple roles and functions inside and outside the home.
The SRP believes in and fully supports a system of proper remuneration as a form of encouragement for better productivity and an increase in quality of service. The winners from such a policy will be the people.
Finally, the SRP is responsible to its own activists who have demonstrated great courage and made sacrifices for the development of their communes. The SRP has made this appeal for funding in good faith and the contributions received will be used in the most transparent way. Elections are over. Let’s get to work for the benefit of our people.
Mu Sochua,
Secretary-general,
SRP
"Elections are over. Let’s get
ReplyDeleteto work for the benefit of our people."
Do you promise? And what work might
that be that will benefited our
people?
Two essential different strategies of CPP and SRP has intensified the shift of better political movement in Cambodia.
ReplyDeleteSRP is the mouthspeaker and role player of world democracy movement. This party is performing the duty on behalf of European Union as well as USA. SRP is tending to reform public services that can work effectively in promoting good governance, decentralization and sufficiency. SRP has initiated with its essential policy to have vote in the grassroot of the people that they have to know well who is a capable and good for their villages....so they have to vote their village chieves or community representatives....village chieves or representatives are not directly appointed by the parties or government.
With this genuine decentralization madened Hun Sen terribly. He accused the proposal of SRP as the coup detat of the government...what's a heck!
CPP has its policy like China and Vietnam that their village chieves or community representatives are directly appointed by party or government. When they appoint them, those agents will work for the party, not for the people...this is what happening in Cambodia nowaday.
Hun Sen is really afraid that those village chieves or community representatives who are elected by people will not obey or work for his absolute commanding. This fear is the fear of lossing the power of Hun Sen.
SRP now is moving in the right track, though recently, this suggestion has been severely jeopadized by Hun Sen, but it is just a standard of world democracy movement. Hun Sen himself is trying to pack his body in the coffin this near future. And for the sake of Cambodia, this initiative must be continually pursued, strived and promoted.
SRP has solemnly announced the increasing 20$ per month according to the necessity and promise. But CPP has never talked about this, but this party is invisibly transfered huge money to their grassroot agents.
SRP is bearing tranparency with this visible and public announcement, while CPP doesn't have enough courage to use national budget transparently...they cannot differentiate the different between national budget and personal pocket.
Bravo the achievement of Cambodian individuals!
Bravo the achievement of Cambodian
ReplyDeleteindividuals, stupid (2:03)?
I still see 3-4 millions unemployed
left in the dark without any hope
in site. All I see is a few
commune chiefs who will do better
by getting sponsored from oversea.
Furthermore, it is not true that
the CPP never talk about better
salary for civil servant. They had
talk about for decades, and only
recently that they managed to
aprove a 20%+ increase per year
for all civil servants to
help them cope inflation before
the SRP pleaded for help from
oversea. Moreover, SRP, CPP,
NRP, ..., and NGOs are well aware
of the major cause of corruption,
and Tranpacency International had
clearly stated recently "lack
of resources". So what is your
point. When will you ever think
about the 30-35% of the population
who long waited for jobs for
decade. Which country on this
planet have more concerned for
the need of the few than the need
of the millions?
Allow me to share with you a
secret, my friend. When you served
the need of the few, a few votes
will you get, and that will never
lead you to victory. we do have
concerns for everyone, but we must
prioritorized thing appropriately.
11:38PM
ReplyDeleteHis main point is the directing voting of village chieves or community representatives....that this Hun Sen has gravely oppposed the proposal of Rainsy...
So you get it now...
Yes, I agree we must think of all citizens discriminately
Yes, but we must think of the need
ReplyDeleteof the many first, just like every
country is doing.
As for Premier gravely opposing
Sam Rainsy idea is not true. Fact
of the matter is we can only afford
to have so many type of election
here. Even the commune election
itself, China provided 10 millions
USD. Keep in mind that election and
monitoring and solving dispute
aint free. Roughly the Commune
Election cost us about 50 millions
USD, and that is about 7-8% of our
GDP.
Ideally, we all want to have public
election for Judges, Parliament
President, MP, PM, ..., Mayor,
Chief, or what have you, instead
for appointing them, but no one on
this planet can affort that. Thus,
the SRP idea is no novel here.
2:07 AM
ReplyDeleteYou are right! What is Rainsy propossing is for the implementing of genuine democracy that sometime we cannot achieve it immediately, we need to set up the line to have people elected their own base/grassroot leaders like in democratic and developed countries.
But why your leader, Hun Sen, was so mad and agitated with this proposal?
Money that SRP spend to supplement main grassroot leaders is the purpose to have fair and improving distributon of all people at the grassroot...so it is not wrong at all for SRP to do so. More than this, it is only the transparency that SRP high rank leaders don't committ corrupt by selling national property or national budgets, but just declaring small supplementing.
Thanks
3:22, We can't even funded our own
ReplyDeletecommune election. Most of the
money came from outsiders. How many
more elections would you like to
have? There is no right or wrong.
The question is is can we afford
($$$) to create an ideal democracy
society? And the answer is NO, big
fat no. Not a single country on
this planet has an ideal democracy
in it. Our democracy is good
enough for the moment. When you
are poor, you shouldn't expected
to drive around in a Roce Royce.
Stop trying to create the
impossible. Let's create jobs
for the needy and desperate.
Many people has commited suicide
due to lack of job. They are not
looking for much. Just something
to do. They are willing to take
50 cents a day for it. Just get
the God damned job!!!
And If we have any extra dollar to
spend, we should spend it on our
ministry of justice and police
officers first to help them
fight temptation from being
corrupted as pointed out by
Transparency International.
Again, you are waisting our tax
dollars on something that don't
fill anyone emptied belly.
4:14AM
ReplyDeleteYour trying to legitimize your absolute power CPP government is baseless and not directing to the real issues in Cambodia.
Why?
Current Cambodia is actually lacking of law enforcement. The national wealth distribution is unfair. Corrupted officials and illegal business tycoons hold huge money in hand without having proper investments to create jobs and make national money flow to improve economic.
Creating jobs in Cambodia is only through aids of garment factories. Government has no clear mechanism with it...so what job capacity that government is targeting now? Hopeless!
Those corrupted officials and ministers as well as business tycoons have holded huge money in hand and delivered it to deposit in foreign bank accounts....this is a treason activity of present government officials, ministers and business tycoons.
So law enforcement and equally distribution will enable and ensure the prosperity of Cambodia.
Ideal or being called perfect democracy has no place to exist in this world, but the willingness of national leaders to bear Equal Law Enforcement, Good Governance, Decentralization and Justice are essential.
Cambodia is far beyond from that standard....democracy in Cambodia is just a propaganda...don't forget Pol Pol named their party as "DK=Democratic Kampuchea".
So help to supplement more salary or subsidizing to those grassroot activists and leaders openly and transparently would can assure the advancement of democracy in Cambodia.
Bullshit, advancing democracy aint
ReplyDeletegonna do shit for the 3-4 millions
who have been suffering lack of
jobs for decades. There are no
proof, and I say again, "THERE ARE
NO PROOF". On the contrary,
advancing Autocracy have been
proven beyond doubt to help for
poor wartorn country such as
Cambodia. Country like China is
a great example of that. Many
experts from around the world
have unanimously agreed that it
will eventually become the next
super economic power.
And you can't talk nonsense about
wealth distribution without knowing
how much wealth we have and how
it should be distributed. Thus,
shut the fuck up if you haven't got
a clue what you are talking about,
alright, moron (7:44)?