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Khmer Anti-Poverty party held its first congress

Monday, March 31, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

The Khmer Anti-Poverty Party, a new political party that not many know its name, held its first congress in Phnom Penh in the morning of 29 March 2008. Daran Kravanh, the party president is a Cambodian-American citizen. He said that Cambodians have suffered poverty for too long, therefore, Cambodians should receive a new life through real US-like democracy so that they may lead a prosperous life. Daran Kravanh said that the current Cambodian society suffers all kinds of poverty: poverty from joblessness, poverty from lack of justice, poverty from their inability to decide their own destiny. He told reporters that if his party wins the election to lead the country, he will add 4 more ministries to serve the people: the ministry of social welfare to provide money to people to buy food and to provide health insurance, the anti-corruption ministry, the ministry for handicap people, and the ministry of labor. He said that his party would win the election if the National Election Committee (NEC) works properly and fairly, however, he said that he had no confidence that the NEC could do it.