Friday, August 3, 2007
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Kem Sokha who was recently elected as the Human Rights Party president, boasted, that during the 2008 general election, his party will be somewhere between the first and second position, but it will not be in the third position. In an interview with The Cambodia Daily, Kem Sokha raised the topic about his party taking a leading position (during the 2008 general election) stemming from the fact that HRP has an ace up in its sleeve, and that this HRP ace is no other than himself. Kem Sokha said that his party can compete against other parties because people know him already. He also said that even though his party is new, he is not a new man, therefore he thinks that his HRP party will be positioned between number one and number two, but not number 3. Kem Sokha said that the goal of his party is to provide power to the people. He said that the majority of the people who are poor is because they lost their power, whereas the Cambodians who are rich is because of they have power. Kem Sokha said that his party will provide power to the people in order to reduce the number of concession lands and take back this wealth to redistribute to the poor people. His party promises that if it wins the election, the proportional voting system will be scrapped and there will be a term limit for the prime ministerial position.
