Phnom Penh
23 May 2008
Nguon Nhel is the first vice president of the National Assembly and a Cambodian People’s Party parliamentarian for Kampong Thom province. As Cambodia heads into general elections, he said Thursday, lawmakers must not forget their constituents.
“Parliamentarians have to serve their voters in each constituency, because each session of the National Assembly is held for three months,” he said, as a guest on “Hello VOA.” “After that, they have a three month holiday, and each lawmaker can go and visit his voters and resolve some problems.”
If lawmakers visit their constituents, they can see problems firsthand and find useful solutions.
Problems that cannot be solved by one lawmaker might have a solution when the National Assembly convenes, he said.
“Parliamentarians have to serve their voters in each constituency, because each session of the National Assembly is held for three months,” he said, as a guest on “Hello VOA.” “After that, they have a three month holiday, and each lawmaker can go and visit his voters and resolve some problems.”
If lawmakers visit their constituents, they can see problems firsthand and find useful solutions.
Problems that cannot be solved by one lawmaker might have a solution when the National Assembly convenes, he said.
6 comments:
Ngoun Gnil looks like a lazy and ignorant man with his answers about land disputes in Cambodia.
All parlimentarians shall visit their constituent as much as they can, in parl\ticular during breaks from parliment sessions.
By being there they can have the first hand news, insight of what is happening to people they represented.
It's point less to read newspaper, watch TV or wait for them to come to the capital city when there's a problem and by then the problem would be out of control.
people these day are quite aware of who they can trust, and believe on action not words which are often broken from time to time.
Visiting them once a year during the election campaign would not do anything good and the party reputation is at stake.
Nguon Nhel?Who is that?He is the dictator in Khmer Parliament(The second hand from dictator Hun Xen).
He is so lazy and very crazy.He is the youn Communist .
Ah Zimbabwean Spam Rainxy doesn't care about Cambodia, only Zimbabwe.
The National Assembly and the Senate form the parliament which follows the European system. In such systems, the proposed laws come from the government side and generally are not written and offered by members of the National Assembly. This differs from the U.S. system for example where Representatives and/or Senators can introduce legislation. In practice the new laws come through the Jurist Council of which the MP is the head, and a lawyer is the deputy who acts as a sort of gate keeper. If it makes it off of his desk it goes before the Inter-ministerial counsel and if approved is sent to the National Assembly. Basically, the law goes to a committee for review and changes. My experience is that very little changes are made to the proposed law as presented.
What would be helpful is an office of legislative counsel, so that individual members can ask that a law be drafted for a particular purpose. In this way, individual members could then introduce legislation without having to wait until it comes from the Executive side of the government. Instead of the U.S. paying for bill boards at the courts for 2 million, it should fund something like a legislative counsel’s office so that members and senators can get laws written and not depend on the Executive branch’s willingness and timing to do so.
yes, voters should be able to come to their representatives to complain about injustice, etc...
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