Showing posts with label Communist Party. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
CPP’s insistence to preserve the same stale face PM candidate earns criticisms
How much longer can Cambodia afford to see the same stale face premier?29 June 2010
By S. Botum
Free Press Magazine Online
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer
The CPP’s decision to preserve the same 30-year-old premiership candidacy starts to generate major criticisms from both political and civil society communities, as well as from the public living in the countryside. By now, the public can expect that the same premier, who holds the same capacity, will lead Cambodia to the same imbroglio with the same problems, such as corruption, huge amount of foreign loans, major illegal flow of Yuon immigrants, border problems, etc…, etc…
Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association, who attacked nonstop the Hun Xen’s regime, indicated that the preservation of Hun Xen’s candidacy to the premiership will not bring any change to Cambodia besides preserving the current shameful status quo situation.
During the celebration of its 59th anniversary, the CPP which was originally known as the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea (PRPK), decided to preserve Hun Xen as its candidate for the premiership in the upcoming 2013 general election. Some political VIPs commented that this decision was made by the CPP to preserve the party’s internal cohesion and to avoid any internal dissensions, at a time when rumors are circulating that Hun Xen issued threats to others, telling them to accept to preserve his candidacy to the party premiership.
Nevertheless, Hun Xen’s insistence to pursue several political mandates leads to a violation of democracy, as by now, several democratic countries in the world abide by the two-term limit rule.
Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association, who attacked nonstop the Hun Xen’s regime, indicated that the preservation of Hun Xen’s candidacy to the premiership will not bring any change to Cambodia besides preserving the current shameful status quo situation.
During the celebration of its 59th anniversary, the CPP which was originally known as the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea (PRPK), decided to preserve Hun Xen as its candidate for the premiership in the upcoming 2013 general election. Some political VIPs commented that this decision was made by the CPP to preserve the party’s internal cohesion and to avoid any internal dissensions, at a time when rumors are circulating that Hun Xen issued threats to others, telling them to accept to preserve his candidacy to the party premiership.
Nevertheless, Hun Xen’s insistence to pursue several political mandates leads to a violation of democracy, as by now, several democratic countries in the world abide by the two-term limit rule.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Vietnam joins the rank of Hun Sen's Cambodia and Saddam Hussein's Iraq where the gov't always win the election by more than 90% of the votes
Vietnam Communists Dominate Election Results
By Matt Steinglass
Hanoi
Voice of America
29 May 2007
By Matt Steinglass
Hanoi
Voice of America
29 May 2007
Communist Party candidates have been elected to more than 90 percent of the seats in Vietnam's National Assembly. The government announced the results of the May 21 election on Tuesday. Matt Steinglass reports from Hanoi.
There were 875 candidates running for 500 seats in last week's Vietnamese National Assembly elections. But the outcome was never in doubt.
Bui Ngoc Thanh, the head of the National Assembly's electoral council, announced that 91 percent of the 493 winning candidates were members of the Communist Party.
Thanh says the election reflected the Vietnamese people's confidence in the Communist Party's reformist economic policies, and the people's right to self-government.
Vietnam maintains a one-party system. The National Assembly has gained some influence since 1992, when a new constitution assigned it a greater role in government. Once a rubber-stamp body, it now debates changes to the law, and often questions government leaders.
In these elections, the government declared it wanted to broaden participation to more non-Party members, but Thanh says those efforts were disappointing.
He says the government had hoped to get 50 non-Party members as delegates, but only 43 were elected.
The nomination process was controlled by a powerful Communist Party-affiliated organization called the Fatherland Front. Almost all the candidates, including the non-party members, are nominated by the Party, or by mass organizations like the Women's Union.
In principle, Vietnamese citizens can run as "self-nominated," or independent, candidates. But such candidates face tough scrutiny. Hundreds volunteered, but only 30 made it through the pre-election approval process.
When the results were announced, it turned out that of those 30, only one had been elected.
Officials said 99.6 percent of Vietnam's voters cast their ballots in the elections. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung won his National Assembly seat, in the city of Haiphong, with 99 percent of the vote.
There were 875 candidates running for 500 seats in last week's Vietnamese National Assembly elections. But the outcome was never in doubt.
Bui Ngoc Thanh, the head of the National Assembly's electoral council, announced that 91 percent of the 493 winning candidates were members of the Communist Party.
Thanh says the election reflected the Vietnamese people's confidence in the Communist Party's reformist economic policies, and the people's right to self-government.
Vietnam maintains a one-party system. The National Assembly has gained some influence since 1992, when a new constitution assigned it a greater role in government. Once a rubber-stamp body, it now debates changes to the law, and often questions government leaders.
In these elections, the government declared it wanted to broaden participation to more non-Party members, but Thanh says those efforts were disappointing.
He says the government had hoped to get 50 non-Party members as delegates, but only 43 were elected.
The nomination process was controlled by a powerful Communist Party-affiliated organization called the Fatherland Front. Almost all the candidates, including the non-party members, are nominated by the Party, or by mass organizations like the Women's Union.
In principle, Vietnamese citizens can run as "self-nominated," or independent, candidates. But such candidates face tough scrutiny. Hundreds volunteered, but only 30 made it through the pre-election approval process.
When the results were announced, it turned out that of those 30, only one had been elected.
Officials said 99.6 percent of Vietnam's voters cast their ballots in the elections. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung won his National Assembly seat, in the city of Haiphong, with 99 percent of the vote.
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