HRP to choose party’s PM candidate [-It looks like Kem Sokha may be the only candidate]

Saturday, February 23, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Kem Sokha’s HRP plans to hold an extraordinary congress on 27 February 2008, to select a PM candidate for the party. This congress will be held at the party’s headquarters in Boeung Kak 2 commune, Tuol Kok district, Phnom Penh. Ou Chan Roth, the HRP secretary-general, told the Rasmei Kampuchea that, based on the principle of democracy, the party requested its 3 committees (the steering committee, the executive committee, and the rule committee) to provide their respective candidates to the premiership candidacy. However, up until now, nobody has come up to announce their candidacy yet. Ou Chan Roth said that the party steering committee led by Son Soubert, who is also a party vice-president, is judged as a potential candidate after the candidacy of Kem Sokha. Ou Chan Roth added that, nevertheless, Kem Sokha was the only one who made it known that he wants to be the party’s PM candidate in the upcoming 2008 general election.