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Sunday 4 November 2007

Funcinpec And Sam Rainsy Party's Supporters Defected To Norodom Ranariddh Party


Photo: Sam Rainsy (L) and Norodom Ranaridhh (R)

Dear Readers,

It is regrettable to hear that all the democratic parties are tearing each other apart. What is more regrettable is that, merely one week after Ranariddh's call for unity amongst all royalists and democrats, political ploy has been hatched in the most damaging way to the possible union between themselves.

The big ego amongst these so-called democrats must be changed if they want to have any chance of unseating the CPP. This tit for tat behaviour must be stopped. I am referring this to the egotistic arrogance of these so-called democrats. This tit for tat egotistic arrogance started when Ranariddh and Kem Sokha rejected Rainsy's call for an alliance of some sort after the April 2007 commune election. According to sourcees close to the SRP, Ranariddh and Kem Sokha have asked for too much and according to the NRP and HRP Rainsy has given too little to them. And so the creation of an alliance has fallen apart.

So Rainsy has to pay it back to Ranariddh for rejecting his call for an alliance. It is a tit for tat. Rainsy will not see the need to form an alliance with Ranariddh because of the arrogance over the commune election results that the SRP received. It's ego, both Ranariddh, Rainsy and Kem Sokha. If they still have their egotistic mentality in them they will never unseat Hun Sen. They will rot in the opposition side forever. And at the end they are trying to tear each other apart by trying to entice defections from each other. It is a political suicide. I am not surprised that in the next few days the SRP will announce some sorts of a defection from the NRP or Funcinpec to their side. I bet. I think Hun Sen is laughing all the way to the PM's office. Hehehe!




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Radio Free Asia


By Sok Serey


Translated By Khmerization




A senior Norodom Ranariddh Party's (NRP) official this Saturday claimed that more than 100 Funcinpec and Sam Rainsy Party's (SRP) supporters in Banteay Meanchey Province defected to the Norodom Ranariddh Party.

According to NRP sources there were 136 SRP and 10 Funcinpec's activists had voluntarily defected to the NRP in a welcome ceremony on Saturday in Chongha commune, O'chrov district, Banteay Meanchey province.

Mr Naranariddh Anandayat, special advisor to Prince Ranariddh, told Radio Free Asia on Saturday that:"Prince Ranariddh's appeal for a united force between royalists and all democrats started to have positive effects".

Mr. Moeun Sarath, Chairman of Executive Committee of the NRP in Banteay Meanchey, who has presided over the welcoming ceremony said that:"They have come in drove. Both the SRP and Funcinpec had come at the leadership level".

Mr. Bin Beuk representing the defectors from the SRP from Chrey village, Chongha commune, O'chrov district, Banteay Meanchey, who was one of the 136 defectors said that:"I have defected to the NRP because the SRP has not achieved anything for the people".

As for Mr. Tek Ngis representing the 10 defectors from the Funcinpec Party said that:"I am too poor so I have decided to defect and people have helped me".

Reacting to these defections, spokesman for the Funcinpec Party, Nov Sovatharo, said that on the contrary the ex-Funcinpec members who have stopped supporting Prince Ranariddh and who have defected to the Funcinpec Party were far greater in numbers than these defections.


Nov Sovatharo said that:" The re-defections to Funcinpec were far greater in numbers which is hard to quantify in figures".


Eng Chhay Eang, Secretary General of the SRP, has also reacted that he is not surprised at all because he knows that these defections were due to false promises. Chhay Eang said that:"I am not paying any attention to this and I don't give any credits to these defections. We just look at the results of the commune election early this year".

Kul Panha, Chairman of an election monitoring body called COMFREL, has said that all Khmer politicians have always used a political ploy to attract more supports for their party before the upcoming 2008 election.

In recent weeks, Prince Ranariddh has called for all royalists and democrats, including the SRP, Human Right Party of Mr. Kem Sokha and the NRP to form a united force, but his wish is yet to materialise.//

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