Two major royalist parties of Cambodia have decided to merge for victory in the 2008 election, senior officials said here on Sunday.
"The Sangkum Jatiniyum Front Party (SJF) has decided to merge with the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) for our victory in the general election in 2008," SJF President and Prince Sisowath Thomico told about 500 party members in its extraordinary congress.
The merge will protect the democratic monarch, the rule of law and the independence of territory, and provide stronger voice for both parties in the general election, he said.
The two parties will merge from the grass root level to the top level, a senior SJF member told Xinhua, adding that the SJF members will join the NRP.
"I will become the second vice-president of NRP," Thomico said, adding that the SJF still remains as a political party barely with any members now, but it will have next generation leaders to succeed him.
The congress played a video tape that Ranariddh recorded in Malaysia, saying that the merge will strengthen the power of the royalists for success in the 2008 election.
Ranariddh was ousted from the co-ruling Funcinpec Party in October 2006 and then established NRP. He stayed overseas ever since.
He was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in jail earlier this year for pocketing party money when he headed Funcinpec.
NRP has been soliciting a royal pardon, without which the prince can't restart his political life.
Source: Xinhua
"The Sangkum Jatiniyum Front Party (SJF) has decided to merge with the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) for our victory in the general election in 2008," SJF President and Prince Sisowath Thomico told about 500 party members in its extraordinary congress.
The merge will protect the democratic monarch, the rule of law and the independence of territory, and provide stronger voice for both parties in the general election, he said.
The two parties will merge from the grass root level to the top level, a senior SJF member told Xinhua, adding that the SJF members will join the NRP.
"I will become the second vice-president of NRP," Thomico said, adding that the SJF still remains as a political party barely with any members now, but it will have next generation leaders to succeed him.
The congress played a video tape that Ranariddh recorded in Malaysia, saying that the merge will strengthen the power of the royalists for success in the 2008 election.
Ranariddh was ousted from the co-ruling Funcinpec Party in October 2006 and then established NRP. He stayed overseas ever since.
He was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in jail earlier this year for pocketing party money when he headed Funcinpec.
NRP has been soliciting a royal pardon, without which the prince can't restart his political life.
Source: Xinhua
The Scumbag (Thomico) merge with
ReplyDeleteNRP for victory in the 2008's
election? hahaha, LOL, hahaha ...
There are alot of uneducated people in the country side. They might believe whatever the prince tells them. Or he can use the money to bribes them like the CPP for votes.
ReplyDeleteYes, he could do that, but the
ReplyDeletepeasants just take the money, and
not voted for him because they are
loyal to their own party.
These two political parties have pretended that they had never knew each other before.
ReplyDeleteThey are, once again, trying to KOM-PLOK-KOM-PLANG and hoping that they can come up new ways to steal Khmer interests again.
Pouk Ah Sdach Jom Kout! Preah Bat Krom Lum-Auong Tho-Ly! Kiss my crack!
Two wrongs will not make right. Khmers will continue to loose as long as royalty exists in Cambodia.
ReplyDeleteThe whole tragedy of the khmer saga this last half a century was and is created by Norodom Sihanouk and his blood relatives. UN organized election of 1992 gave a good chance for khmer to get out from under vietnam control. But Norodom Sihanouk together with son Norodom Ranaridh turn khmer nation over to vietnam control again.
Khmer people shall rise and use whatever means possible to get rid of the royal scum bag and their accomplice Hun Sen and all the vietnamese slave from Cambodia.
Amen!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think the problem with Royalists
ReplyDeleteis that they are into marrying
their own cousins. Many scientists
has found many issues with that,
from child birth complication to
child intelligence. I know there
are some exceptions to the scientists
finding, but I don't think most of
the royalists that we have, fitted
into those exceptions, hehehe.
How do we believe those preteded Royalists???
ReplyDeleteJust Money, Ladies, Corruption for them.....
As of Samdach Krom Press RunRot as example!!!
Where is Runrot @ Phalla??
When will Phalla leave Press Ang for others ????
Kamlos Srok Sre
How can we believe Those so-called Royalists any more???
ReplyDeleteTHOSE BOTH MERGED PARTIES will be spoiled by Dollars and Ladies & Sra when they would have Power
ReplyDeleteAcha Knoy
To 12:20
ReplyDeleteYou have found the real problem of Cabmdodia not like those Khmer living ouside Cambodia.
The question to is that now you knwo that Cambodia is under Hun Sen`s grip who everyone believe that he acts accordingly to the Hanoi`s oder.
But does any one dare to oppose him. I know clearly that Camdodia doesn`t lack educated people but those eduacated people absolutely immorale. You can read their comment. They do nothing in contributing to improving Camodia. But I`m sure they will laugh if Cambodia is in trouble...
I think Ranarith is no good as we have observed but I may not say anything about Thomico yet.
But at least I can see someone dare to oppose the Hun Sen government...
Khemara PPenh
Why would you want to oppose Khmer
ReplyDeletepeople leading their country, 9:44?
Leave them alone and let them learn
to do it themselve. We are sick and
tire of Khmer-EU fuck up our
country.
Whatever he did in the past, good or bad, Sihanouk had done the best thing later: He liberated the Country from Vietnamese occupation. You must understand that.
ReplyDeleteI know and I am not against
ReplyDeleteSihanouk nor I am for Sihanouk.
I have a lot of respect for him,
except for his unwillingness to
give credit to where it's due and
the admission of problem inside the
Royal family. To me, that is
another timebomb ticking inside
Cambodia.