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Wednesday 6 April 2011

Hun Sen: I will be prime minister forever


By Khmerization
Source: RFA

Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) has again reiterated his intention to rule Cambodia for as long as he live and as long as the people continue to support him.

In a speech during the inauguration of a high school in Kandal province on Monday, 4th April, Mr. Hun Sen said he will rule as prime minister indefinitely as long the his Cambodian People's Party and the people still support him. "I will continue to rule into the future without a time frame to leave office. The most important thing is whether the people voted for me or not. That's what important. Don't talk about too long or too short or about other issue [Arab-style revolution] in other places. The issue in Cambodia is that we have elections every 5 years and if the party still support me and the people still vote for me, I will continue (as PM)", he said.

Mr. Hun Sen is resisting a call for the term limit of the prime minister in Cambodia, saying Cambodia is not the same as countries in the Western World. "There are calls for a term limit, 2 terms, 3 terms. You (opposition parties) can limit your own term as president of the party to 3 or 4 terms is up to you. The president of my party (Mr. Chea Sim), even though he is very old, is still the party president. The party's honourary president (Mr. Heng Samrin) is still the honourary president, there won't be a change. If you want to introduce a system, just do it for yourselves, but in Cambodia it is a Cambodian issue and everyone of them wanted to introduce a term limit? No way! What the hell do we want it for!", he said.

The opposition leaders, Mr. Sam Rainsy and Mr. Kem Sokha, have consistently called for a term limit for the prime minister, preferably a two-term limit similar to the term limit for the U.S presidency. But, 59 year-old Mr. Hun Sen who became prime minister of Cambodia in 1985 after serving six years as foreign minister, strongly resisted that call. He has said in the past that he will continue serve a prime minister until he is 90 years old.

More reading:
1. 26 years of Mr. Hun Sen's rule.
2. Hun Sen: 26 years at the helm.
3. Cambodian ruler's son enjoys rapid rise.
4. Hun Sen promises to go on and on.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

There's nothing can last forever. However, the longer he stays, the more he gets corrupt, and the less his people live a happy life. He is doomed to die a violent death in the end.

Anonymous said...

2:11 PM, agree with you. Hun Sen seem to say that he will leave office if people stop voting for him, but in 1993 he lost the election but refused to leave office, so we can't trust him. This guy wants to hang on until he is killed by a coup or people's revolution. He is very power hungry.

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen will never get out of the office of PM even though he loses the election in the future.

This man is not serving Cambodia's interests. He is serving his own interests and has never hesitated to ask for help from Vietnam at the expense of Cambodia as long as he can be in power.

There are enough Vietnamese in Cambodia right now who can vote to tip the balance of votes in favor of Mr. Hun Sen since there will always be some Cambodians who think like him continuing to vote for him.

It looks like Cambodia is doomed!

From Sihanouk to Lon Nol to Pol Pot and now to Hun Sen, these idiots are just too good at killing their own people and country for their personal benefits.