By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
02 February 2009
Funcinpec and the Norodom Ranariddh Party signed an agreement Monday pledging joint cooperation in local elections set for May.
The declaration between the two royalist parties comes amid internal strife for the Norodom Ranariddh Party, as two factions vied for control of the party over the weekend and 18 people were fired.
The agreement with Funcinpec President Keo Puthreaksmey was signed by NRP President Chhim Seakleng.
“Unity and cooperation between the two parties is very interesting for our two parties in the May election, and the cooperation will increase the [council] seats of the two parties,” Keo Puthreaksmey told reporters Monday.
The two parties vowed to set up a joint working group to prepare cooperation in structure and strategy to add votes from commune council members for decentralized district and provincial councils, as well as a Phnom Penh council.
“We strongly believe that cooperation will go smoothly toward the May election,” Funcinpec Secretary-General Nhiek Bunchhay said.
By joining support, the parties will have more sway over the May elections because they can combine commune council votes.
If the parties did not join for the election, he said, Funcinpec would only win three council seats in the provinces and only 35 in the districts. But by joining, the two together would win 13 provincial seats and 105 district seats.
“We can gather the votes from commune councils,” said NRP Secretary-General You Hokry said.
The announcement comes after a major shake-up within the NRP over the weekend, when 18 members were fired for insulting the party’s founder, Prince Norodom Ranariddh. The prince, meanwhile, has asked the party to no longer use his name or image. You Hokry said Monday the internal problems were resolved following the law.
The declaration between the two royalist parties comes amid internal strife for the Norodom Ranariddh Party, as two factions vied for control of the party over the weekend and 18 people were fired.
The agreement with Funcinpec President Keo Puthreaksmey was signed by NRP President Chhim Seakleng.
“Unity and cooperation between the two parties is very interesting for our two parties in the May election, and the cooperation will increase the [council] seats of the two parties,” Keo Puthreaksmey told reporters Monday.
The two parties vowed to set up a joint working group to prepare cooperation in structure and strategy to add votes from commune council members for decentralized district and provincial councils, as well as a Phnom Penh council.
“We strongly believe that cooperation will go smoothly toward the May election,” Funcinpec Secretary-General Nhiek Bunchhay said.
By joining support, the parties will have more sway over the May elections because they can combine commune council votes.
If the parties did not join for the election, he said, Funcinpec would only win three council seats in the provinces and only 35 in the districts. But by joining, the two together would win 13 provincial seats and 105 district seats.
“We can gather the votes from commune councils,” said NRP Secretary-General You Hokry said.
The announcement comes after a major shake-up within the NRP over the weekend, when 18 members were fired for insulting the party’s founder, Prince Norodom Ranariddh. The prince, meanwhile, has asked the party to no longer use his name or image. You Hokry said Monday the internal problems were resolved following the law.
10 comments:
Ah Rith ah Chhay ah arch ko why you bother.....you are funny people.....you don't even believe in yourself how can you ask people to believe in you ah arch ko.....just join with ah Sen CPP youn slave. I can't find any good words to talk about you idiots.
6:08 why you left out ah puth rasmey? ah het!(asskisser) do you know who order them to join together like this? obviously their master hun sen! the strategy is to weaken srp and hrp join hand! didn't you guy see this? it is so obvious!
at least there will be only two parties to compete - cpp and srp(hrp).
can't wait to see funcinpeg and ranith gone for good
Opposition parties come and go, story long/short. They’re there to make correction of any erroneous that the domination government carries out.
loser+loser= losers
Devil worshipper has undermined himself. Soon Cambodians will send him to Hell.
Pouk Ah Scam Rainxy is horrified by the unity of the FUNCINPEC party. If successful, it would certainly to spell the end of the new stupid DMC party, which is why they can't stop bashing them.
Nov proeung Es s'rerng lit konthor s'dec dol na teat ???
As S'dec samrech srok dol badal ponnoeung tov hoeuy nov proeung trodor roe sa'ei teat Ah ???
Ah s'dec terng taing soy reach tear muoy krovech ph'tey Vaing hoeuy nov min prorm boeuk ph'nerk moeul!!!!
If successful, they sure will kick Pouk Ah Yuon’s slaves back to where they came from and stop all idiots returning to kill innocent Khmers. No doubt they will get punch in the mouths or end up in a ditch somewhere.
No need to say about Yaun or Khmer. What I want to say here is that the signed agreement between NRP and FUN aims to be loosers with together for next election!
It is an useless agreement, for nothing, for shit, for stupid and for all the negative adjectives of English language!
No many more peole trust on you guys. You destroyed yourselves and you will out of Cambodian politics at the near-end!
Bravo shit agreement!
Hean Padhi
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