Opinion by Khmerization
20th May, 2009
Mrs. Mu Sochua’s testimonies of the courageous men and women of the Sam Rainsy Party who refused to sell their conscience to the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) during the municipal election is very inspiring, despite threats, coercions and the offer of massive amount of money to buy their votes.
These SRP’s councillors, who are poor, have resisted the temptation of a get-rich-quick scheme and opted to go with their conscience and principle. They are good role models for all future generations of Khmer politicians. They should be commended for their non-corrupt and clean conscience.
People have been talking about an outright victory for the CPP. Considering that the CPP controls 100% of all levels of local, district and municipal administrations, the results of this municipal and district election should be seen as a victory for the SRP. Starting from zero councillors before the election to 600 councillors after the election, the SRP had emerged as a force that can weather the storm, considering that there are massive frauds and vote-buying committed by the ruling CPP.
The results of this election have put the SRP on another step forward to strengthening itself as a political party that can withstand the political storm that have been created by the ruling CPP, especially Prime Minister Hun Sen. But importantly, it means that, with the SRP councillors working by their sides, the CPP’s councillors who were prone to commit corruption, will have to think twice before they will doing anything wrong because their actions can be exposed by the SRP’s councillors. Services at the district and municipal levels will be improved because of competition and because of the fears of being exposed by the opposition SRP for neglect of duties as have been practising by the CPP-controlled administrations in the past.
Another good news for the SRP is, with this solid foundation at the district and municipal levels, it can strengthen its party one step further. And the conscience that have been shown by courageous SRP’s councillors who refused to sell out to the CPP vote-buying scheme is very impressive and inspiring indeed. With this clean image and clear conscience, they have inspired voters who will look up to them as their role models and true representatives. They are the SRP’s men and women of principle.
20th May, 2009
“People have been talking about an outright victory for the CPP. Considering that the CPP controls 100% of all levels of local, district and municipal administrations, the results of this municipal and district election should be seen as a victory for the SRP. Starting from zero councillors before the election to 600 councillors after the election, the SRP had emerged as a force that can weather the storm.”
Mrs. Mu Sochua’s testimonies of the courageous men and women of the Sam Rainsy Party who refused to sell their conscience to the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) during the municipal election is very inspiring, despite threats, coercions and the offer of massive amount of money to buy their votes.
These SRP’s councillors, who are poor, have resisted the temptation of a get-rich-quick scheme and opted to go with their conscience and principle. They are good role models for all future generations of Khmer politicians. They should be commended for their non-corrupt and clean conscience.
People have been talking about an outright victory for the CPP. Considering that the CPP controls 100% of all levels of local, district and municipal administrations, the results of this municipal and district election should be seen as a victory for the SRP. Starting from zero councillors before the election to 600 councillors after the election, the SRP had emerged as a force that can weather the storm, considering that there are massive frauds and vote-buying committed by the ruling CPP.
The results of this election have put the SRP on another step forward to strengthening itself as a political party that can withstand the political storm that have been created by the ruling CPP, especially Prime Minister Hun Sen. But importantly, it means that, with the SRP councillors working by their sides, the CPP’s councillors who were prone to commit corruption, will have to think twice before they will doing anything wrong because their actions can be exposed by the SRP’s councillors. Services at the district and municipal levels will be improved because of competition and because of the fears of being exposed by the opposition SRP for neglect of duties as have been practising by the CPP-controlled administrations in the past.
Another good news for the SRP is, with this solid foundation at the district and municipal levels, it can strengthen its party one step further. And the conscience that have been shown by courageous SRP’s councillors who refused to sell out to the CPP vote-buying scheme is very impressive and inspiring indeed. With this clean image and clear conscience, they have inspired voters who will look up to them as their role models and true representatives. They are the SRP’s men and women of principle.
1 comment:
Yeah, the result the SRP got is impressive, from zero to 600 councilors. The CPP vote-buying is not successful because it can only buy a few votes from SRP councilors.
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