Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) on Tuesday told voters not to hold it against
him if they disapprove of local CPP officials and to vote for him anyway
come this year’s national elections in July.
“Please don’t hit the cart if you are angry at the cow. Don’t stop
voting for Hun Sen if you hate your commune chief,” he said in a speech
in Kompong Cham province to inaugurate a pagoda.
“It’s a national election,” he said. “Don’t be confused, the national policy is set out by me.”
More than 97 percent of the country’s 1,633 commune chiefs are ruling
party officials. Given broad authority to manage electoral registers,
commune chiefs have come under increasing scrutiny from various
independent election monitors who have found irregularities in voter
lists.
Speaking at the inauguration of the pagoda in O’Reangou district, Mr.
Hun Sen applauded the decision to again raise the minimum wage for what
he estimated are Cambodia’s 600,000 garment workers.
“The minimum wage has increased from less than $30 to over $40, then
$62 and now $80,” he said. The $80 includes a pre-existing health bonus
in the minimum wage of $75, which will be effective in May.”
“That’s why some garment workers can send money to their family,” he added.
Cambodia’s minimum wage is still the lowest in Southeast Asia, and
economists and labor advocates have said that $75 is well below a living
wage in Phnom Penh.
Comparing Cambodia to countries around the world beset with internal
conflicts, such as Egypt, Syria and the south of Thailand, Mr. Hun Sen
boasted that “only the CPP can maintain long-lasting peace and
stability.”
“The CPP has never changed its symbol. It is simply an angel
spreading flowers. So just tick that angel sign [and] you are electing
Hun Sen,” he said.
Mr. Hun Sen also noted that O’Reangou district was where he lost an eye as a soldier in the country’s civil war in the 1970s.
“O’Reangou is the land where I lost one of my eyes. One piece of
shrapnel is remaining in my eye, so sometimes when there is rain and
thunder, I suffer,” he said.
3 comments:
Chea Sim is dying slowly , Hun Sen is the the active head of CPP ; all those bad local leaders were selected and approved by Hun Sen . Therefore ; Hun Sen is not the innocent ox cart , he is the cart DRIVER , who pulled the
oxen strings to go down hill to the edge of the cliff . Khmer passengers ( voters ) must quickly get rid of Hun Sen , the bad driver , for survival .
Feel pity for Hun Sen ! He lost the left eye to fight for Communists , then he lost
his head after Yuon invasion .
Hun Sen cannot say "if you are angry with the ox, don't hit the cart". In this case, if the child did not behave we blame the parent for not educating them the right way. So, if Hun Sen's subordinates did not do a good, it's all Hun Sen's fault because he did not sack them or teach them to do the right thing, so it's his fault.
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