Mu Sochua (center) meeting with SRP supporters (Photo: SRP)27 May 2008
By Duong Sokha
Ka-set
Unofficial translation from French by Tola Ek
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Mu Sochua, SRP Deputy Secretary-general, likes to be ahead of the game, and to quickly put to an end the rumors in which she would be leaving her party “for another one” (without providing any further detail), and which are spreading like wildfire among the news media.
In a communiqué posted by the opposition party on Tuesday 27 May, Mu Sochua, who is at the top of the SRP candidate list in Kampot province for the upcoming election, said that she is “officially denying these rumors” which allegedly came from “people with bad intentions who are trying to divide the SRP and tarnish its popularity” at the approach of the election.
“I want to make it clear that I joined the SRP with the goal of fighting against dictatorship, against corruption and social injustice which constitute the cancer of the Nation, and which the Khmer people are suffering from,” Mu Sochua added, before stating that she is preserving her code of conduct and her faithfulness to the SRP which she joined in 2004, following her stint as the Funcinpec Minister of Women Affairs between 1998 and 2004.
Mu Sochua took opportunity of this communiqué to call on SRP members and supporters not to be manipulated by malicious people.
She confided to Ka-set, over the phone, that she was recently contacted by officials of her former party, asking her to rejoin the Funcinpec back, with the promise that she will be offered an important position in the government. She declined the offers.
In a communiqué posted by the opposition party on Tuesday 27 May, Mu Sochua, who is at the top of the SRP candidate list in Kampot province for the upcoming election, said that she is “officially denying these rumors” which allegedly came from “people with bad intentions who are trying to divide the SRP and tarnish its popularity” at the approach of the election.
“I want to make it clear that I joined the SRP with the goal of fighting against dictatorship, against corruption and social injustice which constitute the cancer of the Nation, and which the Khmer people are suffering from,” Mu Sochua added, before stating that she is preserving her code of conduct and her faithfulness to the SRP which she joined in 2004, following her stint as the Funcinpec Minister of Women Affairs between 1998 and 2004.
Mu Sochua took opportunity of this communiqué to call on SRP members and supporters not to be manipulated by malicious people.
She confided to Ka-set, over the phone, that she was recently contacted by officials of her former party, asking her to rejoin the Funcinpec back, with the promise that she will be offered an important position in the government. She declined the offers.
