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| Kem Sokha, left, leader of Human Rights Party sitting alongside with Sam Rainsy, leader of Sam Rainsy Party, in Manila last month. |
Prime Minister Hun Sen has compared news of the merger to “a storm in a bottle.”
07.08.2012
By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
WASHINGTON DC - The merger of Cambodia’s two main opposition parties is likely to cause some concern for the ruling party, as it attracts attention to the nation’s politics, analysts said Monday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has compared news of the merger to “a storm in a bottle,” but Ou Virak, head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said the mention of a merger by Hun Sen shows he is watching closely.
“Although he has not said he is impressed or worried about the unification, it shows that the Cambodian People’s Party is paying attention to the unification process,” he said.
Lao Monghay, an independent political analyst, said the merger is likely to attract more votes among the populace, which is bound to get the ruling party’s attention.
By some estimates, some 60 percent of eligible voters do not support the ruling party, Ou Virak said. That leaves a lot of votes up for grabs in the national election scheduled for July next year, he said.
And the merger comes at a time of increasing unhappiness among many people who have not found justice in the court system and have instead taken to the streets in protest, he said.
A proper election is a good place for people to air their grievances, he said, rather than major political upheaval such as the Arab Spring, most recently, or in the Philippines or Indonesia not long ago.
A reformed National Election Committee, widely derided as politically biased toward the ruling party, would bring more confidence from the people, he said.
“And in my view, the ruling party has the power to win the election in 2013 properly with an independent NEC,” he said. “And it can win if the CPP reforms some policies, the judicial system, and others to help the CPP to win fairly, but it depends on the government too.”
11 comments:
Making shit
វាដៀតែខ្នូចអាមួយព្យុៈក្នុងដបរីឯអាមួយទៀតព្យុៈក្នុងក្រឡ!
Let they do because Cambodia is muti party or you want to live under CPP created by Ho Chi minh 1951 for ever?
DUMB Khmer wants to live under Ho Chi Minh adopted son, Hun Nal forever. And DUMB Khmer will happily give their land and their houses to the YOUN to move in.
Yuon (Viet) move border markers up to 1 mile west along Prek Krabao (Vinh Te canal) total about 100 square miles along the entire canal.
Khmer people must protest to UN. See enlarged Google maps
it is the real two dog come from pnopeng,come to bite the khmer outside owncountry work with thach ngoc thach worked for SIHANOU
5:22AM<Dumb Khmer including you too, we are not a CPP's supporter what we wanted to know what are your strategies to removed ah Hun Sen's regime?. I like to hear from you Mr. Khmer.
5:22AM<Dumb Khmer including you too, we are not a CPP's supporter what we wanted to know what are your strategies to removed ah Hun Sen's regime?. I like to hear from you Mr. Dumb Khmer.
and hun sen is a mad dog in a bottle
The entire Khmer stretch of land along Prek Krabao (Vinh Te canal) up to a mile deep are now encroached by Yuon, about 100 square miles and 100 miles long in Kampot province now belong to Vietnam. You can view this by zooming in on Google map. Khmer people must protest to UN google maps and cancel all the Illegal treaties enforced by Vietnam to its client government in Phnom Penh since 1982.
My strategy is to get you DUMB Khmer to stop praying for the thunder lightning to strike the Vietminh Hun Nal and the CPP dogs. You DUMB Khmer haven't done a thing, even when YOtootling our land in the latest land swapping policies. All you DUMB Khmer do is curse and curse but NOTHING else.
You DUMB Khmer needs to stop begging like the CPP dogs.
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