Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Prime minister Hun Sen warned a number of unnamed ministers on Tuesday that he will remove them from their positions, if they let their wives continue to interfere in the government work. Muth Chantha, NRP spokesman, declined to comment on Hun Sen’s speech in which the latter was alluding to Uk Phalla, the latest wife of Prince Norodom Ranaridh, but he agreed that a number of ministries are currently under the administration of family members of officials in these ministries. Muth Chantha told The Cambodia Daily that some ministries are governed by nepotism, while others are clannish, and that almost all ministries are currently administered by family members (of the ministers). SRP MP Yim Sovann, said that he agreed with Hun Sen’s speech, and that corruptions are usually initiated by the ministers’ wives. Yim Sovann said that the ministers’ wives are large company shareholders, and they use their husbands’ power to obtain agreements. Yim Sovann said that he strongly supports Hun Sen’s speech but he wants to see these words becoming reality, and that they will be forever executed.
