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| Prince Norodom Rannaridh (left) hands out 5,000 riel notes (about US$1.25) to party supporters at Wat Phnom in Phnom Penh yesterday. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh Post |
Prince makes case in capital
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
He then showered Hun Sen with effusive praise, calling him a strong leader who solves problems while claiming that opposition parties can’t help people.
In a flashy first appearance on the campaign trail yesterday in Phnom Penh, Prince Norodom Ranariddh peeled off cash to supporters, defended the upcoming merger with Funcinpec and said that voting for certain opposition parties was the same as throwing ballots into the river.
Representatives from the Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party, whom Prince Ranariddh targeted for criticism, responded by calling him a puppet DOG of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who had encouraged the merger. And an election monitor said that doling out cash to supporters was common, but it could give observers the wrong idea.
“All the parties, they give money to the activists, because they pay them to organise activities. They post leaflets, they carry loudspeakers,” said Koul Panha with the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia.
“It’s not a good image. People could consider it vote buying, because they don’t know who they [the activists] are.”
Pen Sangha, a spokesman for the Norodom Ranariddh party, said the money is needed to pay supporters for their services.
It is intended for necessities like “gasoline and lunch” after campaigning, he said.
Standing at a spot outside the Wat Phnom resort, Prince Ranariddh explained that only Hun Sen could have facilitated this merger. Indeed, he said the idea appeared to him in a dream.
He then showered Hun Sen with effusive praise, calling him a strong leader who solves problems while claiming that opposition parties can’t help people.
Representatives from SRP and HRP shrugged his comments off and categorized Prince Ranariddh as an irrelevant political figurehead.
“We are not interested in what he said, because he is a spokesman of the Cambodian People’s Party. He used to be prime minister until he lost almost all the seats,” SRP spokesman Yim Sovann said.
“What Samdech Krom Preah [Ranariddh] said, no one listen. There is no surprise. Everyone knows who Samdech Krom Preah is. Samdech Krom Preah’s name is not in the heart of people any more,” HRP spokesman Pol Ham said.
11 comments:
Rannaridh is just a son of Bastard and prostitute .
really he must be killed by khmer people ;
wait and see sooner him and his faMILY
REST IN PEACE with the devil.
If Khmers in Cambodia want to solve their problems, stop being greedy, fearful and corrupt.
Be Brave and vote for change, VOTE FOR SAM RAINSY PARTY ON JUNE 3, 2012 and in 2013 and we go from there.
This Royalist Party Party is not worth your support!
Overseas Khmer
Dumb Hoon Xen's DOG starts to bark every where!
Cambodians don't Dumb Dog as their leader. He did not care his soldiers who died for him and his father, million people voted for him the early '90.
He does care $$$ and pussy why he became Hoon Xen's dog. Like father like son!
Go to hell Nararith! You are a worthless person!
Wining and losing is not the matter here. The point whether you want to be a politician to help yourself to serve the others or a politician to help yourself to serve yourself.
Let me express my view of Norodom Rannaridh. Rannaridh uses Cambodia as his political playground, because they allow him to do it freely. In the west, his political life finished a long time ago. His ego is not for Cambodia but for his own power, women, money. Period.
His king father sent him to study in France , at the expense of Khmers' money.
Now , look what he turned out to be !! A HUNGRY PAGODA DOG at service
of PAGODA BOY .
That dog gave money to him because he saw his teenage daughter.
Gentlemen please stop calling name and be civilize not low ourselves like these useless royals even you strongly disagreed with Somdach Krom Preah Norodom Ranarith. In my opinions he was political forces who could have been making a differences in our country until he followed his father footsteps chosen to be allied with Viet's puppet government PM Hun Sen, chosen to be a womanizer, chosen wealths which not that impressive, chosen cowardness, uncaring to Khmer hero soldiers who gave their lives for his royal family from 80's up to coupe D'état 97 by Viet's criminals.
These royals and his close colleagues were just trying to secure their position in PM Hun Sen's government so PM can still throws them some small bones.
SRP and HRP I don't even know for sure if the top leaders were really serving Khmer peoples. My question is: WHY ARE SRP AND HRP WEREN'T ABLE TO PUT THEIR GREEDY DIFFERENCES ASIDE AND MERGE BEFORE ANY ELECTION FOR THE SAKE OF OUR PEOPLES AND COUNTRY ? You guys need really to look into it. Opposition parties always said we looking out for Khmer peoples but yet always bickering among themselves. SRP AND HRP PROVE YOU ARE REAL KHMER PATRIOTIC BY MERGE AND STOP SPLITTING VOTES.
JUST TAKE HIS STOLEN MONEY AND VOTE FOR AH SAM RAINSHIT!
To ah 11:07 PM,
I did not know who you are yet
You are neither CPP nor SAM RAINGSY
PARTY.
Maybe you are a SHIT PARTY to yourself.
Ah Narith is ah Hun Sen dog.
He got money from ah Hun Sen
and bribed the poor people.
The rest ones who are standing by
are dogs too.
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