Phnom Penh Post
Princess Arun Rasmey
attends a Funcinpec Party meeting in October 2007 with her husband, Keo
Puth Rasmey (L). Photograph: Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh Post
Committee members of the royalist political party Funcinpec have
decided to nominate Princess Norodom Arun Rasmey, the youngest daughter
of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk, as their president and
candidate for prime minister in July’s national elections.
Funcinpec spokesman Tum Sambol said yesterday the decision was made
over the weekend and Rasmey came from a political background with an
impeccable résumé that includes a 2008 run for the premier’s seat and
the current ambassadorship to Malaysia.
“We selected Princess Arun Rasmey as our premier candidate to
encourage women into politics, and, secondly, she has never had negative
experience. Thirdly, she is the daughter of the late King Father,” he
said.
Sambol added that Rasmey will be officially elected during the party congress in March.
Her family, Funcinpec and Cambodian politics have all entwined since
Sihanouk first founded the royalist party in 1981. Rasmey’s husband, Keo
Puth Rasmey, was a one-time president of Funcinpec. Her brother, Prince
Norodom Ranariddh, led the Funcinpec party to electoral victory in the
1993 UNTAC-sponsored elections.
Ranariddh was co-prime minister in the “two headed” government with
Hun Sen for four years until 1997, when Hun Sen ousted him during bloody
factional fighting.
Since then the party’s fortunes have faltered, with repeated decline
in the number of National Assembly seats. When Ranariddh set out on his
own with the Norodom Ranariddh Party, the venture came to naught in an
acrimonious attempt to merge with Funcinpec last year.
Kuol Panha, executive director of local election monitoring group
the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia, said yesterday
Funcinpec would benefit from female candidates, but the party must have a
clear political platform on women’s issues.
Tep Nytha, secretary general of the National Election Committee, said 53 per cent of all eligible voters are women.
To contact the reporter on this story: Vong Sokheng at
sokheng.vong@phnompenhpost.com
5 comments:
I don't care who win the election as long ah Hun Sen is no longer the PM
Family business/nepotism in politic destroy our nation.No mo'gook blood i won't vote for them-they all useless...
To 2:52 am,
Remove ah kwak, dak ah kwen - there shall be no benefit to Cambodia - short or long term.
Look at this FUNCINPEC - they are all CPP - e.g. Veng Sereivudth a part time taxi driver from Wellington New Zealand who could not land a job any where in the world.
Well,if you can post the Taxi that he drove with his picture we would appreciate it.Gook's bloods were contamination so badly its turn to poison if holding higher position the country will turn to year zero again.
Yes,we better off vote for Princess Soma to be female primate of ScamOfia is better that the Arun Resmey because Soma is more moderation less contamination of gook's blood in her,less spirit of demonic poses greedy pigs.
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