15 March 2008By Sav Yuth
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by KI-Media
Prime minister Hun Sen, vice-president of the ruling CPP party, said that a non-ruling political party threatened his party because the CPP accepted high-rankling defectors from that non-ruling party.
During the presiding over the inauguration of the Wat Slat Romchey Pagoda, located in Chub Trav village, Svay Chek commune, Angkor Thom district, Siem Reap province, on Saturday 15 March, Hun Sen said that a non-ruling party threatened and accused the CPP of buying people to defect from other parties, and Hun Sen asked this party to stop using the word “buying.”
Hun Sen said: “A non-ruling party threatened back because their members are leaving in drove, including the important leaders who came to join the CPP. Now they accused the CPP of buying out people, and the defectors are accused of being banana leaves (cheap), corrupt and such. I said in Kampong Thom already, do not use the word ‘buyout’.”
Hun Sen is not naming any party in particular that he claimed threatened his party, but, based on his speech, he is most likely pointing at the SRP which saw some party members defection and these defectors received positions in the government in exchange for their defection.
Eng Chhai Eang, SRP Secretary-general, rejected Hun Sen’s claim by saying that the SRP did not threaten the ruling party. However, he called on the CPP leaders who are ruling the government currently, to stop using government positions and government funds to dole out to the defectors. Eng Chhai Eang said that this money should be used to stop inflation, and to help create work for the public instead, that would be a much better alternative.
Eang Chhai Eang said: “When SRP party members join them, the CPP gave them positions. I am calling the CPP to stop giving out government position, to stop doling out money from the national budget to the defectors. This money should be used to subsidize for the ever increasing price of goods.”
Hang Puthea, Nicfec executive director, said that the policy of breaking up party members so that they defect from their parties is not a good culture for a democracy. This provides a bad example to future generation of politicians, and this will create a hurdle for the voters to decide whether to support any political party or not. “This culture should be eliminated, if it exists in the current society,” Hang Puthea said.
Recently, Hun Sen declared that he will provide government positions to all opposition party members who decided to defect from their party. However, on Saturday, he also said that the public should vote according to their conscience to select a political party each individual supports, and he called on an end to threat issued against the voters.
During the presiding over the inauguration of the Wat Slat Romchey Pagoda, located in Chub Trav village, Svay Chek commune, Angkor Thom district, Siem Reap province, on Saturday 15 March, Hun Sen said that a non-ruling party threatened and accused the CPP of buying people to defect from other parties, and Hun Sen asked this party to stop using the word “buying.”
Hun Sen said: “A non-ruling party threatened back because their members are leaving in drove, including the important leaders who came to join the CPP. Now they accused the CPP of buying out people, and the defectors are accused of being banana leaves (cheap), corrupt and such. I said in Kampong Thom already, do not use the word ‘buyout’.”
Hun Sen is not naming any party in particular that he claimed threatened his party, but, based on his speech, he is most likely pointing at the SRP which saw some party members defection and these defectors received positions in the government in exchange for their defection.
Eng Chhai Eang, SRP Secretary-general, rejected Hun Sen’s claim by saying that the SRP did not threaten the ruling party. However, he called on the CPP leaders who are ruling the government currently, to stop using government positions and government funds to dole out to the defectors. Eng Chhai Eang said that this money should be used to stop inflation, and to help create work for the public instead, that would be a much better alternative.
Eang Chhai Eang said: “When SRP party members join them, the CPP gave them positions. I am calling the CPP to stop giving out government position, to stop doling out money from the national budget to the defectors. This money should be used to subsidize for the ever increasing price of goods.”
Hang Puthea, Nicfec executive director, said that the policy of breaking up party members so that they defect from their parties is not a good culture for a democracy. This provides a bad example to future generation of politicians, and this will create a hurdle for the voters to decide whether to support any political party or not. “This culture should be eliminated, if it exists in the current society,” Hang Puthea said.
Recently, Hun Sen declared that he will provide government positions to all opposition party members who decided to defect from their party. However, on Saturday, he also said that the public should vote according to their conscience to select a political party each individual supports, and he called on an end to threat issued against the voters.
11 comments:
Anything that vietcong stands "behind it " he or she will look like a donkey. Just like hun sen now.
Look at this picture. " heehar, heehar "
I call on Hun Sen to continue to lead cambodia into prosperity. Democracy does not work everywhere. Sometime you need a leader with strong visions. If you wait for "the people" to decide. nothing will get done. Progress...and those democracy stands in the way of progress. One party, one ruler one people... that's how you build a nation.
Hunsen has a vietcong culture.
the policy of breaking up party members so that they defect from their parties is not a good culture for a democracy
If party members are really having trust in their party leader and leadership, are faithfull with their party then there would not be any breaking up.
Defection from one party to another is nothing to do with culture of democracy. Members of political parties in the West and may be the rest of the world do resign from their party and join with another. Some does not resign from their current party but opt to secretly making donation to other party.
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This provides a bad example to future generation of politicians, and this will create a hurdle for the voters to decide whether to support any political party or not.
Don't think that it would the vision of the young and future generation of politicians as most of the intelectuals now are educated in the Western more than in the Eastern block and therefore their sense of political platform will be drastically change in line with the rest of the world.
Don't think it will create any hurdle for voters as most voters have made their mind much earlier than the scheduled election itself to take place, for instance people who comment here know in their heart who will get theirs vote.
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This money should be used to subsidize for the ever increasing price of goods.”
Can't see that any subsidized scheme would benefit the working and poor people due to the fact that most business is money oriented and they are there to make money. Sadly but it's true that no one would want to do a lose money business, and this small amount of money can't even meet the cost of setting up an organization to oversee the subsidy program should RGC decided to have one.
I think Hun Sen is trying to invent something here as a pretext to intimidate and later on, crackdown, on oppositions. Watch out. The word threat is very strong but I see nothing as a "threat" as claimed by Hun Sen. On the other hand Hun Sen's everyday speeches contained lots and lots of threats.
The CPP doesn't threat innocent people. They only threat criminals because they can't reason with them.
Hun Sen is a Gang leader.
Ah Sen does everything to be in power so that he can take more land for Ah Chanray Youn, kill more Khmers, grabbing more land from the poor for his cronies, and at the end he will will dies for his injustice and the crime he commits against the Khmer people. He will die soon and does his Corruptedly Poisonous Party (CPP).
Wrong Planet, there is no Corruptedly Poisonous Party here, only Coolest People Party (CPP).
Stop using the word "buying". Use the word "selling", because I (Hun Xen) have already sold my head to the Vietcong.
Everyone have their own freedom.
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