Friday, July 25, 2008

Parties Hone Messages in Campaign Push

By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
24 July 2008



During a monthlong election campaign, 11 political parties announced their messages to more than 8 million voters in an effort to gain their support. They promised reform, the elimination of poverty and a return of social justice. They promised to fix inflation, solve land-grabs and sweep away corruption.

But Friday is the last day of the campaign, and in the final hours the nation's five major parties now must consider their most important messages.

You Hockry, Norodom Ranariddh Party secretary-general, said his party was most focused on ending land disputes.

"The Norodom Ranariddh Party must eliminate land disputes to promote people's living standards," he said. "Our party policy is not to increase poverty, but to reduce poverty. So Prince Norodom Ranariddh mainly focuses on policies to give people the right to have land that belongs to them."

The CPP said it was focusing on the issue of natural environment, while the Sam Rainsy Party was focusing on the high prices of goods in the market.

Coalition partner Funcinpec was promoting the reform of the judiciary, by giving full power to the king over the courts.

The Human Rights Party, meanwhile, was focused on anti-corruption legislation and cleaning up corruption "from the top," as well as the declaration of assets.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

You Hockry, the betrayer of Funcinpec.
The one that make the cost of a lots of lifes of Funcinpec's members.
Especially Hor Sok in 1997.
If Ranariddh still stick with this You Hockry. It doesn't worth to hear him.

Khmer Canadian

Anonymous said...

Sounds like the Sok and Hok are traitors. Sok AN, Hok Lundy, Sok Kong... same group?

If all Cambodian parties joined, we can have a clean mind government.

Get rid of the old one. They always cause trouble. Fighting and corruption is obsolete.

Anonymous said...

CPP!
CPP!
CPP!
CPP!
CPP!
CPP!

Anonymous said...

On Monday July 28th 2008,
Samdech Preah Maha Decho Hun Sen will become the nation HERO and the Prime Minister. The CPP is the principle of the Cambodia, the master in politics, the strategist of the problems solving, the role model of all parties. The wins wins with none stop ruling party.
The security in the country is safe, the economy is growing, the stability is smooth and peaceful.
The investors is high, the development growing all over the country, The people happy of living in Cambodia.
The looser may go back home to where they come from with empty seats in the Assembly of ruling.

Samdech Preah Maha Decho Hun Sen is a Cambodian HERO the Sun Of Cambodia, the great grand sun of Hun Tein the King ruling Cambodia.

Down SRP, HRP, Func, Norodom and many others.... Chaos.