Friday, August 02, 2013

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy agrees to talks on disputed Cambodia election result

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy agrees to talks on disputed Cambodia election result

ABC (Australia) | 2 August 2013


Cambodia's Opposition Leader Sam Rainsy has agreed to an offer of talks from Prime Minister Hun Sen to discuss claims of voting irregularities.

After suffering the worst election result in 15 years, the Prime Minister Hun Sen has extended an olive branch to the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party, which has rejected the ruling party's results.

He also says he'd welcome an investigation into alleged voting irregularities, which has been demanded by the opposition.

Hun Sen's offer comes as as the opposition CNRP claimed that it had won Sunday's general election with a narrow margin of 63 out of 123 seats.

On election night, the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) announced it had won 68 seats to the opposition's 55.

Hun Sen has called on the opposition leader Sam Rainsy to compromise and to attend his proposed talks, which would look at forming a new parliament.

"I wish to stress that it does not matter which political party won the election - the important thing is that our nation won," he said.

"I have told three of my senior party members to negotiate with Sam Rainsy and I hope that the talks process will go well, but if needs be I will talk to Sam Rainsy by myself."

Sam Rainsy has told Radio Australia's program he'll attend the talks, but maintains his party won the poll, not Hun Sen's.

"We accept the dialogue, but the objective is to establish and expose the truth - nothing less," he said.

"We can move forward only once the truth is recognised by everybody, and the truth is that the ruling party, after ruling Cambodia for 34 years, has lost this election and there is a democratic change underway in Cambodia."

Hun Sen also says he's open to the idea of a multilateral inquiry into the election led by the country'€™s election commission in order to show transparency and to come to a resolution that everyone can accept.

Sam Rainsy says the Opposition wants the international community and the United Nations to oversee the inquiry.

"Now that the ruling party accepts to join in this committee to investigate, so we are ready, we'll abide by any conclusion by the investigation committee," he said.

"We would expect the ruling party to make that same commitment."

10 comments:

Anonymous said...


I cannot wait to see Hun Sen to be in Sam Rainsy’s shoes, and let’s see what kind of a strong man will he be and how fast will he desert his cronies and party?

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Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

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លោកសួនសេរីរដ្ឋា បានថ្លែងថា ក្ដអាស៊ី និង
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អស់ជំនឿ អស់សង្ឃឹម ស្លាប់ជីវិតដោយអសារ
បង់ សង្រ្គោះជាតិខ្មែររបស់លោក នឹងក្លាយទៅ
ជាសង្រ្គោះជាតិយួន ច្បាស់ប្រាកដ។

បើយើងក្រឡេកមើលទៅលើឆាកអន្តរជាតិវិញ
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នោះ ទាំងអស់នោះ ក៏ ក្លាយទៅជា បរិវារ
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ទទួលបានអំណាចបុណ្យសក្កិ បំភ្លេចប្រ
ទេសជាតិខ្លួន៕

Anonymous said...

Long Live Viet Nam and Hun SEN...

WE will control Cambodia forever and soon will be our new Province.

Good work Hun SEN.. kill all useless khmer because they are so so stupid as they have no culture they copies all their dancing and music from Thailand and others...

Rainsy go back to France .. and we are buying all your peoples with 2millions USD each for each of your law makers... Long Live VietNam

Anonymous said...

Sam rainsy and kem sokha, you are very cheap and become a traitor. Why did you agree to talk with hun sen. Don't you feel sorry for khmer people who try to vote for you. This is really get on my nerve. Now ki-media, khmer post, khmer world radio, etc still bias what going on. Sam rainsy, no wonder you able to come back to cambodia with no problem. You only think of yourself and power.

Anonymous said...

Sam rainsy and kem sokha, you are very cheap and become a traitor. Why did you agree to talk with hun sen. Don't you feel sorry for khmer people who try to vote for you. This is really get on my nerve. Now ki-media, khmer post, khmer world radio, etc still bias what going on. Sam rainsy, no wonder you able to come back to cambodia with no problem. You only think of yourself and power.

Anonymous said...

make sure you don't eat or drink anything during the meeting ok because, they could poison you both (SR and KS) to death. At the meeting you have to be careful that you might walk into their trap. Must have all journalists and medias along side always to document such a journey or else there is nothing to talk about.

Please remember this, do not trust the CPP words, why? because they are very good at lying, deceiving and manipulation. Everything must be documented and let it be public, no more behind close door. Everything is to be published and ready to expose about true facts. In this way, we are being honest to each other at all costs.

Avoid secracy and lies and manipulate because soon or later, it will catch up with you. e,g your lie could kill you. Because cautious especially CPP. When they talk about making a deal, it will never be nice, there will be some condition in it. e,g I let you win but you have to let my three sons hold onto top position etc...or guarentee that you won't kill my family...etc

In this case, it is a delimma, it is sitting in between the line legal and illegal e.g between right and wrong, innocent or criminal? it can not be compromised but can be legalised base on condition etc..if only it will bring peace for all.

When it comes to a 'delimma' e,g the law said 'do not feed a hungry child', but you decided to feed him/her anyway because they were asking for it. Now, if you get caught, you probably have to pay the price but you still do it anyway out of compassion. e.g your response to the judge, could be if you don't feed him/her, they will die? in this case, how can a judge rule out? it is called a 'delimma'. or killing with compassion e.g someone beg you to kill them because they can't bear the pain etc. So, to SR and Kem, please think wisely, when it comes to such a delimma.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

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