TEHRAN (FNA)- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Saturday
that his People's Party would definitely win a landslide victory in
July's general election and advised his ministers to prepare for the
implementation of the next five-year action plan in the forthcoming new
term of government.
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"No doubt, no one can defeat the Cambodian People's Party, " the
premier said during the celebration of the 64th anniversary of the
International Children's Day at the Diamond Island Grand Theater in
Phnom Penh.
"It is clear that I will still be the prime minister in the government's next five-year term (2013-2018) after the forthcoming election," said Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia since January 1985, Xinhua reported.
On Thursday, US-backed International Republican Institute unveiled a survey result, according to which 79 percent of the Cambodian people believed that Cambodia was headed in the right direction under the leadership of Hun Sen.
According to the survey, conducted early this year, 79% of the 2,000 respondents said that the country was moving in the right direction because the government had built more roads, bridges, schools, health clinics, pagodas, irrigation systems and worked towards poverty reduction. [The opposition CRNP also claimed that the same IRI survey indicated that 54% of respondents will vote for the opposition CNRP].
Twenty-one percent of the respondents said the nation was in the wrong direction, citing corruption, illegal immigration, nepotism, damage to environment and fisheries, low crop prices for farmers, land grabbing, and poverty, it said.
Cambodia is set to hold a general election on July 28, according to the National Election Committee. Some 9.67 million eligible Cambodians will cast their ballots in the upcoming polls for the 123-seat parliament.
Eight parties will run in the election. Among them are three major parties including the ruling Cambodian People's Party headed by Hun Sen, the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party led by self-exiled leader Sam Rainsy, and the royalist Funcinpec Party headed by Princess Norodom Arun Rasmey, the youngest daughter of late King Father Norodom Sihanouk.
"It is clear that I will still be the prime minister in the government's next five-year term (2013-2018) after the forthcoming election," said Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia since January 1985, Xinhua reported.
On Thursday, US-backed International Republican Institute unveiled a survey result, according to which 79 percent of the Cambodian people believed that Cambodia was headed in the right direction under the leadership of Hun Sen.
According to the survey, conducted early this year, 79% of the 2,000 respondents said that the country was moving in the right direction because the government had built more roads, bridges, schools, health clinics, pagodas, irrigation systems and worked towards poverty reduction. [The opposition CRNP also claimed that the same IRI survey indicated that 54% of respondents will vote for the opposition CNRP].
Twenty-one percent of the respondents said the nation was in the wrong direction, citing corruption, illegal immigration, nepotism, damage to environment and fisheries, low crop prices for farmers, land grabbing, and poverty, it said.
Cambodia is set to hold a general election on July 28, according to the National Election Committee. Some 9.67 million eligible Cambodians will cast their ballots in the upcoming polls for the 123-seat parliament.
Eight parties will run in the election. Among them are three major parties including the ruling Cambodian People's Party headed by Hun Sen, the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party led by self-exiled leader Sam Rainsy, and the royalist Funcinpec Party headed by Princess Norodom Arun Rasmey, the youngest daughter of late King Father Norodom Sihanouk.
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