12th April 2008By Sophorn Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization
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The Human Right Party’s (HRP) officials have launched their 9-points priority political platforms and their 55 action points on new year’s eve in order to gain voters supports leading up to the July election.
President of the HRP, Mr. Kem Sokha, declared on 12th April at the party’s headquarter in Phnom Penh that if he is elected to the post of PM, his first priority is to ratify the Anti-Corruption Law in order to protect national resources, because presently the country‘s resources have increasingly fallen into the hands of powerful and rich people.
Mr Kem Sokha said: “Today’s natural resources have not been equitably distributed. The powerful and the rich have received more from resources such as lands, forests, fishes, gem stones and mineral resources and Angkor Wat concessions etc. have fallen into the hands of the powerful and the rich. That’s why, if we win the election, we will amend the constitution immediately.”
He said that his political platforms came from the ideas of the people living inside and outside of the country. He further said that, if he wins the election, he will provide investments capital and create or find markets for the farmers, build irrigation systems, provide loans to 50,000 farmers per year, establish mechanisms for students to gain work experience to boost their employment chances and to establish job search centres in all the provincial cities. The poor people will have access to free medical treatments and his government will establish centres for old aged people.
Mr Cheam Yiep, a Cambodian People’s Party official, said that political platforms of other political parties are just the dreams designed for the purpose of attracting voters. In relations to the Anti-Corruption Law, he said that , in spite of a delay, Cambodia has the old laws that can be used to punish those who committed corruption.
Mr Cheam Yiep said: “He has not won the election yet, but he has promised a lot already. So, he is lying to the people just to attract their supports. It’s normal, even if the angels or God are coming down from heaven, they won’t be able to stop corruption because, in this world, every country has corruption, only more or less.”
A coordinator of the NGO, NICFEC, who is monitoring the election process, Mr. Sam Kuntheany, said that the distributions of the political platforms booklet by the HRP is an election campaign carried out before the official campaign allowed by the National Election Committee, but this is a habit of any political parties which have the means to do so and there is no punishment inscribed in the laws.
Up until now there is no true number of how many political parties will contest the 27th July election.
President of the HRP, Mr. Kem Sokha, declared on 12th April at the party’s headquarter in Phnom Penh that if he is elected to the post of PM, his first priority is to ratify the Anti-Corruption Law in order to protect national resources, because presently the country‘s resources have increasingly fallen into the hands of powerful and rich people.
Mr Kem Sokha said: “Today’s natural resources have not been equitably distributed. The powerful and the rich have received more from resources such as lands, forests, fishes, gem stones and mineral resources and Angkor Wat concessions etc. have fallen into the hands of the powerful and the rich. That’s why, if we win the election, we will amend the constitution immediately.”
He said that his political platforms came from the ideas of the people living inside and outside of the country. He further said that, if he wins the election, he will provide investments capital and create or find markets for the farmers, build irrigation systems, provide loans to 50,000 farmers per year, establish mechanisms for students to gain work experience to boost their employment chances and to establish job search centres in all the provincial cities. The poor people will have access to free medical treatments and his government will establish centres for old aged people.
Mr Cheam Yiep, a Cambodian People’s Party official, said that political platforms of other political parties are just the dreams designed for the purpose of attracting voters. In relations to the Anti-Corruption Law, he said that , in spite of a delay, Cambodia has the old laws that can be used to punish those who committed corruption.
Mr Cheam Yiep said: “He has not won the election yet, but he has promised a lot already. So, he is lying to the people just to attract their supports. It’s normal, even if the angels or God are coming down from heaven, they won’t be able to stop corruption because, in this world, every country has corruption, only more or less.”
A coordinator of the NGO, NICFEC, who is monitoring the election process, Mr. Sam Kuntheany, said that the distributions of the political platforms booklet by the HRP is an election campaign carried out before the official campaign allowed by the National Election Committee, but this is a habit of any political parties which have the means to do so and there is no punishment inscribed in the laws.
Up until now there is no true number of how many political parties will contest the 27th July election.
1 comment:
Go ahead Kem Sokha, challenge for the PM post. We can't afford to let our country be shrunk by a puppet any longer.
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