Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The opposition will boycott the first National Assembly session

Page 1 of SRP letter to King Sihamoni (click to zoom in)
Page 2 of SRP letter to King Sihamoni (click to zoom in)
Page 3 of SRP letter to King Sihamoni (click to zoom in)
Reply letter from King Sihamoni (click to zoom in)

15 Sept 2008

By Ky Soklim
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Tola Ek
Click here to read the original article in French


In a letter sent on 12 September to King Norodom Sihamoni, the 26 elected SRP MPs have clearly indicated their position regarding the 24 September Parliament session: they will not participate in it.

Through this action, the elected opposition MPs want to renew their protest against the election results. “Our decision was taken in the name of million of voters who casted their ballots for us, and in the name of Cambodian people whose rights were denied by the election rigging. Today again, no institution provided justice for us,” the SRP MPs wrote in this letter. The also asked the king the authorization to swear-in separately.

On the same day, short of a detailed reply back, King Sihamoni informed that he indeed received this letter.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey, can't we all love one another? how about working together for the sake of our beloved cambodia. god bless cambodia.

Anonymous said...

This makes no sense. OK, you lost but get on with the work of the National Assembly for the good of the nation.

Anonymous said...

Electoral fruad! These two opposition leaders made a good call by not joining the swear-in ceremony.

Anonymous said...

Go boys... Go! Don't give up. The god and the people at least now view you and your party as their real hope! The current gov.t is nothing but to survive its self, elites, clans'interest and power! I can't agree more when you promised the people that you will never swear in the thief, ghost and youn parliament.

Anonymous said...

We rather have Yuon runs the country than the two morons.

Anonymous said...

Hello All,

Chinise's proverb say: "Without a fight, the two of us will never respect each other".

That is why Human being create law and regulations to follow. Each of us step back one step to form a collaboration/rules to follow. This proverb applies all any situation.

Is it Fair?

SpicyGroup said...

Even though some royalists made some mistakes, how can we exclude them from politic?

Sisowat had about 40 registered wives and 300 concubines. Norodom also had 36 registered wives and hundred concumbines. King Monivong has 200 concumbines. Soramarith has 20.
Sons and grandsons of Sisowat and Norodom have about 5 to 10 registered wives.
Daughters and grand daughters of Sisowat and Norodom have about 3 to 4 husbands.

In conclusion, there are more than 2,000 royal family members.

They are not going to give up easily.

Anonymous said...

What a clown king is this? He doesn't even have ball to give comment/idea regarding the SRP stance as indicated clearly in the letter, just simply a plain acknowledgement of receing the letter. No doubt, he's only King in Opera (Sdach Lakhoan)