Kampuchea Thmey newspaper
8th December, 2008
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization
PM Hun Sen (pictured) has launched a personal attack on the Sam Rainsy Party lawmakers who intervened to divert the agenda of the parliamentary session during a parliamentary debate on the 8th of December. The parliamentary session had two agenda: the debate on the draft of the 2009 Financial Accountability Laws and a motion to appoint Gen. Teng Savong as the Secretary of State of Ministry of Interior and the appointment of Mr. Ik Sarou as the Member of Parliament for Pailin.
Samdech Hun Sen said that the campaign season has finished so the opposition parties should not try to exploit for their own political gains and that we must work together. He said that everybody has eyes and he hopes that they will open their eyes to see what Cambodia had in the past and that they must recognise what they don’t see in the past and what they can see now. They must see the whole forest, not see just one tree, he said.
In his reply to questions from the opposition party, PM Hun Sen said despite the defence and security took up 19.5% of the national budget, but it is only equivalent to 1.85% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But the expenditure on social affairs is 34.7% of the national budget which is equivalent to 3.30% of GDP.
Mr. Cheam Yeap, chairman of parliamentary committee on economy, finance, banking said that most increases on defence budget are due to chapter 64 of the draft laws which focussed on the salaries of public servants and military and security personnel which have received their pay-rises in the last few years.
PM Hun Sen responded to Mrs. Mu Sochua who criticised the government for spending to much on road constructions at the expense of social affairs. The PM said that the roads were also built for Khmer women. He said that may be Mrs. Mu Sochua wanted the government to put the money into the women’s pockets before she will recognise that the government has helped the women.
PM Hun Sen said that everything is inter-related so he asked the opposition not to view the government as a child who know nothing. Mr. Hun Sen said that if the opposition parties are good the people will vote for them. Because they are no good that’s why the people didn’t vote for them and instead they voted for his Cambodian People’s Party.
In regards to the opposition Sam Rainsy Party’s criticism of the land issues, Mr. Hun Sen said that the government recognised that there are problems because in the 1980s the state distributed one hectare of lands to a family with only 3 people ( father, mother and a son). But now the same family has increased their family members to 10 people but they still live on the same one hectare of lands.
Mr. Hun Sen said that in 1979 Cambodia only had a population of 5 million but now Cambodia has a population of about 14 million. So, if we have confiscated the lands from the people throughout the country as has been accused by the opposition party, may be the Cambodian People’s Party will not win any single seat in the parliament, he said.//
8th December, 2008
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization
PM Hun Sen (pictured) has launched a personal attack on the Sam Rainsy Party lawmakers who intervened to divert the agenda of the parliamentary session during a parliamentary debate on the 8th of December. The parliamentary session had two agenda: the debate on the draft of the 2009 Financial Accountability Laws and a motion to appoint Gen. Teng Savong as the Secretary of State of Ministry of Interior and the appointment of Mr. Ik Sarou as the Member of Parliament for Pailin.
Samdech Hun Sen said that the campaign season has finished so the opposition parties should not try to exploit for their own political gains and that we must work together. He said that everybody has eyes and he hopes that they will open their eyes to see what Cambodia had in the past and that they must recognise what they don’t see in the past and what they can see now. They must see the whole forest, not see just one tree, he said.
In his reply to questions from the opposition party, PM Hun Sen said despite the defence and security took up 19.5% of the national budget, but it is only equivalent to 1.85% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But the expenditure on social affairs is 34.7% of the national budget which is equivalent to 3.30% of GDP.
Mr. Cheam Yeap, chairman of parliamentary committee on economy, finance, banking said that most increases on defence budget are due to chapter 64 of the draft laws which focussed on the salaries of public servants and military and security personnel which have received their pay-rises in the last few years.
PM Hun Sen responded to Mrs. Mu Sochua who criticised the government for spending to much on road constructions at the expense of social affairs. The PM said that the roads were also built for Khmer women. He said that may be Mrs. Mu Sochua wanted the government to put the money into the women’s pockets before she will recognise that the government has helped the women.
PM Hun Sen said that everything is inter-related so he asked the opposition not to view the government as a child who know nothing. Mr. Hun Sen said that if the opposition parties are good the people will vote for them. Because they are no good that’s why the people didn’t vote for them and instead they voted for his Cambodian People’s Party.
In regards to the opposition Sam Rainsy Party’s criticism of the land issues, Mr. Hun Sen said that the government recognised that there are problems because in the 1980s the state distributed one hectare of lands to a family with only 3 people ( father, mother and a son). But now the same family has increased their family members to 10 people but they still live on the same one hectare of lands.
Mr. Hun Sen said that in 1979 Cambodia only had a population of 5 million but now Cambodia has a population of about 14 million. So, if we have confiscated the lands from the people throughout the country as has been accused by the opposition party, may be the Cambodian People’s Party will not win any single seat in the parliament, he said.//
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