Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has sent a letter to former king Norodom Sihanouk requesting his help in resolving “serious problems” within and outside of the country.
The continuing border standoff over Preah Vihear temple and an impending deadlock between the ruling party and the opposition over the next administration are both damaging the country, Sam Rainsy [...]
Opposition Seeks Help of Former Monarch
CPP’s control of parliamentarian seats help secure policy sustainability in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) — The Cambodian National Election Committee (NEC) declared Tuesday the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has secured 90 seats, or over two thirds of the 123 seats, at top legislative body in the general election, thus enabling CPP to have stronger management of the country.
Meanwhile, the main opposition Sam Rainsy [...]
Witness to Cambodia’s birth pangs
Among his childhood memories, Sam Rainsy recalls sitting with his father on the rooftop terrace of their beautiful house in Phnom Penh, watching pelicans land next to their water tank. “In Cambodia, which is full of superstitions, friends and neighbours kept telling us that these pelicans would end up by bringing us bad luck,” he [...]
Cambodian people must reject poll results
Cranston City, RI, United States, — The full implementation of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement is the only alternative to lead Cambodia toward freedom and democracy.
Presently, Cambodia is a police state just as were Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria during their occupation by the Red Army of the Soviet Union. The elections in Central Europe [...]
Constitutional Council Denies SRP Recount
The Constitutional Council on Tuesday rejected the request for a ballot recount in Svay Rieng province, claiming the Sam Rainsy Party showed false evidence in its case.
The Sam Rainsy Party had requested a recount in 650 ballot stations, citing a difference in counting results between the party and the National Election Committee results.
Opposition leader Sam [...]
Cambodia’s opposition has key role to play
Hong Kong, China — The ruling Cambodian People’s Party won a landslide victory in the country’s general election on July 27, claiming 90 out of 123 seats in the National Assembly, the lower house in the bicameral parliamentary system – although final results will not be announced till September.
This party almost wiped out its long-standing [...]
The leader who goes on and on
With yet another election victory in the bag, Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Sen, is now entering his thirty-fourth year in power. Hun Sen draws his inspiration not from south-east Asia’s more democratic leaders, but from Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, who used dictatorial methods to build a modern, prosperous but tightly-controlled island city-state. Still only 57, [...]
On King’s Return, Heavy Election Duty
As King Norodom Sihamoni returned from the Beijing Olympics Friday, he was scheduled for key election functions, but opposition officials said they would ask him to delay a swearing-in ceremony for the formation of the new government.
Opposition leaders are maintaining a boycott of July’s election results, claiming widespread fraud undermined free and fair elections.
Their complaints [...]
Three Parties Maintain Government Boycott
The newly elected members of three parties in opposition to the ruling coalition will not swear in later this month, preventing the formation of the National Assembly and retaining a deadlock in the new government, leaders said Friday.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who held a press conference with the leaders of the Human Rights and Norodom [...]
Cambodia’s ruling party win confirmed
Cambodia’s National Election Commission says the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has won 58 percent of the popular vote in last month’s election.
It nearest rival is the Sam Rainsy party with 22 percent.
The NEC however declined to say how many parliamentary seats each party had won saying this would be decided later to allow political parties [...]