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Men Kimseng, VOA Khmer | Washington, DC
In the wake of minor wins in the local commune elections early this month, two opposition parties are now in negotiations to merge together for next year’s general election.
Officials from the Sam Rainsy and Human Rights parties are set to meet next month in Manila to lay groundwork for a possible merging before the national election scheduled for July 2013.
Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, sees this as a positive move. The election law provides advantages to a bigger party, he said. And an opposition merger will make it easier to field competent candidates and to spend money wisely, he said.
“If they stay separated it gives a lot of advantages to the Cambodian People’s Party,” Ou Virak told VOA Khmer. “If these parties merge, they have a chance to win in 2013.”
Neither party showed well in the local commune elections earlier this month, with the Sam Rainsy Party winning just 22 out of 1,633 commune chief positions, followed by the Human Rights Party with 18. The CPP won the rest, an overwhelming majority.
But opposition officials maintain that irregularities in voter registration and on polling day skewed the actual will of the people, giving them a chance to win in 2013.
“Once these two parties merge together, it pushes momentum to attract supporters,” Ou Virak said. “Especially those swing voters.”
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I always support unity against dictatorship. This a positive for srp and hrp. I hope more party would jump on the wagon so we can retake our motherlands back.
i don't know about running away and work from overseas. whose law are these incompetent, ineffective opposition leaders using, e.g. khmer law or french law or what have you, really? and why they like to run away and hide instead of living and staying put in cambodia. i think people will not vote for them if they continue to run away and hide overseas behind their french or british second citizenship. cambodia don't need troubled people who like to run away and hide under their foreign citizenship like this. it's like bashing cambodia for their foreign hosts or something, you know. hey people in cambodia aren't stupid and outdated anymore, ok, so get educated already, really! cambodia is not for run away, incompetent, ineffective, weak and outdated thinking people like this, you know. wake up already and stop being primitive forever, really! cambodia don't like being primitive and behind time anymore, ok. cambodia changed already, you know.
What Cambodia really need is an impartial judicial working system that would take no political parity sides. And what Cambodia really need is less corruption from public servernt such as office holder, military personal, and police officer. Honestly I am very sick and tired of those officers at the airport asking me from money every time I go to Cambodia, really.
and their excuse is they are poor and need money, etc. if they cambodia is poor, why other countries are so rich? why is that disparity? is it because cambodia lack skills, have to much war and destruction, etc? if other countries can become rich, then why can't cambodia become like those countries out there? why or wny not? is it the lack of skills, educated people, too much conflicts, the war stunned the country, people live in fear, people lack of education and skills, etc, etc? explain what your view is about this and what can you suggest cambodia can and should do to make a real, lasting difference. remember no use of violence or bad language is allowed when given constructive criticism, etc, ok. learn to be civilized and by all mean, cambodia, please rid of that primitive system or primitive thinking, etc; it's sort of outdated in this computer age 21st century when the entire world is using advanced electrics and advanced technologies, etc, etc, ok! why choose to continue to stay ignorant and lack of skills, etc? why? i cannot understand why people choose such life style if they were looking around the world to see how the world is doing. is it stupidity, is it mental illness, is it deprivation, is it isolation, is it lack of education, lack of skills, lack of self-thinking, etc? what is it? explain.
Pas besoin d'être Einstein pour comprendre que la fusion des 2 partis est la condition sine-qua-non de la victoire pour la prochaine élection législative. Allons allons les mecs!!
No need to be Einstein to understand that the merger of the 2 parties is crucial to win the next parliamentarian election. Come on buddy!!!
greed and unethical code of conduct, etc...
maybe bad culture? or weakness and lack of education like worldly education. or perhaps, some people are too poltical about it all, thus painting bad picture and bashing cambodia because of their lack of education or their evil upbringing, etc. maybe it's an elitist thing, keeping the major in the dark hole as in ignorance for control purpose. who knows, there's just too many speculations out there, really! whatever it is, the question is why cambodia is different from the rest of the world when it comes to mentality, paradigm, seeing the world view, etc.
Merge together means make a new bigger boat and even CPP riders want to jump in the new boat for they know for sure that a risk of capsizing is none or minimal .
Once Khmers who jumped in FUNCINPEC ship did not realize that it was full of pirates .
The event still haunt them till today . merge now when the parties still get some
KHMER' s trust ; don't wait till the supports go down to zero just like FUNCINPEC
and RANARIDDH , then the merged party will get nothing more than zero ..
Please be mature !!
Prove to Khmer people that your 2 parties have brain and be able to find a common groud to stay together.
Your 2 parties must be able to identify the SEE PEE PEE's spies and kick them out with the approval of both parties.
why srp is so incompetent and so ineffective and run away and hide under two countries' citizenship, etc, why? you think khmer people in cambodia vote for them to win if they continue to be like this? think! they are not without their own issue, you know. so stop pretending and whining nonstop here, ther and everywhere, ok! so boring already, really!
Shut up, you don't know what you're talking !
When SRP and HRP merge, and NEC will carry out its solemn duties, the NEW opposition party will win the upcoming National election.
Let' s unite and work together !!!
Khmer Girl
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