Cambodian opposition wants general strike after 'constitutional coup'
PHNOM PENH |
(Reuters) -
Cambodia's main opposition
party accused long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen of a "constitutional
coup" on Wednesday and said it could call a general strike as it steps
up protests over its complaints of vote-rigging in July's general
election.
The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) led by former finance minister Sam Rainsy says it won the election and it boycotted the opening of parliament this week, leaving Hun Sen to be reappointed prime minister by lawmakers from his Cambodian People's Party (CPP).
"We condemn this National Assembly, this government which is the result of what we consider a constitutional coup, so we will not cooperate in any manner," Sam Rainsy told a news briefing.
"One idea in the air is a general strike across the country for one day. We will call a strike, so all factories, all civil servants, all shopkeepers will stop working that day," he said.
Chea Mony, president of the Free Trade Union, Cambodia's biggest labour organisation, told Reuters he would ask his 100,000 members to join the protest, noting that the CNRP had promised to nearly double the minimum wage if it won power.
The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) led by former finance minister Sam Rainsy says it won the election and it boycotted the opening of parliament this week, leaving Hun Sen to be reappointed prime minister by lawmakers from his Cambodian People's Party (CPP).
"We condemn this National Assembly, this government which is the result of what we consider a constitutional coup, so we will not cooperate in any manner," Sam Rainsy told a news briefing.
"One idea in the air is a general strike across the country for one day. We will call a strike, so all factories, all civil servants, all shopkeepers will stop working that day," he said.
Chea Mony, president of the Free Trade Union, Cambodia's biggest labour organisation, told Reuters he would ask his 100,000 members to join the protest, noting that the CNRP had promised to nearly double the minimum wage if it won power.
"What the government has promised before and now are just empty promises," Chea Mony said. "I will support the CNRP protest."
The National Election Committee says Hun Sen's CPP won 68 seats in the election to the CNRP's 55.
That was already a big setback for the authoritarian premier, but the CNRP claimed victory, saying it was cheated out of 2.3 million votes, and it has held a series of protests to press for an independent inquiry.
Hun Sen said on Tuesday that in talks last week the CNRP had seemed more interested in getting top jobs in the National Assembly, including parliamentary president, than pressing for any inquiry.
Giving
his side of the story, Sam Rainsy said the CNRP had insisted on an
independent investigation but had also suggested that, while that was
going ahead, the opposition could take control of parliamentary
procedures while the CPP remained in charge of the executive branch.
He
said the CNRP would launch a campaign to try to get other countries not
to recognise Hun Sen's government and to urge foreign companies not to
do business deals with Cambodia.
Hun Sen, 61, has been in power for 28 years and has vowed to rule Cambodia into his seventies.
He portrays himself as the man who saved Cambodia from the terror and chaos of the Khmer Rouge years in the 1970s and the war that followed.
But his iron-fisted rule and widespread corruption alienated many young people who did not live through that era and who turned to the CNRP in the election.
At the first meeting of the new cabinet on Wednesday, which was carried live on television, Hun Sen promised to give civil servants a pay rise and said his government would fight corruption and reform the judiciary.
And the premier, who generally brooks no dissent from inside or outside his party, invited criticism from his team.
"You'll have to keep a check on me regularly," he said. "That's your duty as politicians."
Hun Sen, 61, has been in power for 28 years and has vowed to rule Cambodia into his seventies.
He portrays himself as the man who saved Cambodia from the terror and chaos of the Khmer Rouge years in the 1970s and the war that followed.
But his iron-fisted rule and widespread corruption alienated many young people who did not live through that era and who turned to the CNRP in the election.
At the first meeting of the new cabinet on Wednesday, which was carried live on television, Hun Sen promised to give civil servants a pay rise and said his government would fight corruption and reform the judiciary.
And the premier, who generally brooks no dissent from inside or outside his party, invited criticism from his team.
"You'll have to keep a check on me regularly," he said. "That's your duty as politicians."
6 comments:
Don't believe anything Hun sick says! If you do believe Hun sick,he will traps you like your Prince Run ot Ridh in 1993.please! Please!please learn from ylthe histories of Hun sick,Hun sick betrayed his country,his coutry-men,his lovers [Pesith Pilikah& Him sivorn or his first lover khmer's lady] Most of all Hun sick betrayed God! Hun sick betrayed the world,the only nation that he didn't betrays was Yieknam.
Please do the GENERAL STRIKES Arab style,do not just sit in the park mediation or pray,this tactics doesn't working in Hun's regime or communist Hanoi's dogs.
Arab style Folks! Fuck Hun sen in the Ass! To get freedom you must sacrifice by any mean necessary just sit the park is out date to do strike,please people wants changes,what did CNRP doesn't understand? changes!Changes!Changed! Why went to first parliament meeting with the thugs whlie your demands hasn't been met? CNRP should stand your ground to do the will of khmer's people not listen to Gay king and hanoi's dogs Cpp thugs.Now Cpp thugs shown their true colors that their promises was nothing to them,their goal is WINNING at all cost! Please do not make deal with DEMONS=HUN SICK!
Prahok
Not just don't promise to raise the salary for all factories workers,, all civil servants and all apparatus of state (MP, Polices, SOLDIERS) but the regime has accelerated Cambodia into the Indochina confederation (VN, Laos, Kampuchea)along the wishes of Ho Chi Minh. If all Khmers don't raise up this time Kampuchea will be the 2nd Khmer Kampuchea Krom.
Every Khmer and foreign observers know that Hun Sen stole the 2013 election, but dictator Hun Sen cares less. As long as he has the backs of the Vietcongs in Hanoi and Chinese communists in Beijing, Hun Sen has no shame of stealing from anyone.
Stealing and oppressing the poor and the helpless are the norm of the Vietcongs and Khmercongs.
And yes the Vietnamization of Cambodia is alive and dictator Hun Sen is the Hanoi-agent hard at work.
Khmer Angkor!
Look like Rainsy is crying ?
ខ្មែរមួយចំនួនខ្លះបានដឹងជាមុនហើយថា មិនយូរទេពួក
សម រង្ស៊ី និង កឹមសុខា នេះនិង
ចូលក្នុង បន្ទប់បិទទ្វារចរចារបែងចែកអំណាចនិងកៅអីអង្គុយហើយ .....
សុំ
សម រង្ស៊ី និង កឹមសុខា!
កុំទុកពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរជាក្របី,
សំរាប់ ចម្លងភក់យួន!!!!!!!!!!!!
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