Prime Minister Hun Sen had sharp words for opposition deputy Kem Sokha in a speech yesterday in Phnom Penh. Heng Chivoan
Prime Minister Hun Sen warned deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha yesterday that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party could easily remove him as first deputy president of parliament at any time – the first sign of brewing conflict between the pair since Sokha took the job late last month.
The threat came just days after Sokha promised a crowd of party members in Siem Reap that he would use the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s newfound power in the National Assembly – along with the help of a few CPP lawmakers – to summons and vote out long-serving and “corrupt” government ministers.
Speaking to several thousand people during the groundbreaking for a new overpass in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district yesterday, Hun Sen asked Sokha for a “ceasefire”.
“It is the period of Pchum Ben. We should celebrate the festival and avoid insulting each other. [We should] not be touring [and talking to people] for political gain,” the premier said, without referring to Sokha by name. “Wherever you go, you find ways to talk about voting out the prime minister and ministers.”
Since being voted in as first deputy president in parliament on August 26, an arrangement prescripted under a political deal signed between the CPP and CNRP on July 22, Sokha has also pledged to try and introduce prime ministerial term limits this mandate.
As he implored Sokha to back off yesterday, Hun Sen cited comments made by CNRP leader Sam Rainsy last month, in which he hailed the freshly filled parliament as part of a new dawn of political reconciliation in Cambodia.
“I would like to send a message that we must have a ceasefire. And we are not the same as in Ukraine [where a recent ceasefire was broken]. We have said that we will work together,” the premier said. “If you [the CNRP] want to vote out ministers, it’s OK, but we can also vote out the first deputy president of the National Assembly.… It is the same, and it will go back and forth.”
Despite new power-sharing arrangements, the CPP still holds a seven-to-six majority on the assembly’s permanent standing committee and an absolute majority on the floor of parliament, Hun Sen pointed out.
Speaking to the Post yesterday, Sokha said the prime minister had no right to pressure him to stifle criticism of government ministers, given that the CNRP was not in a coalition government.
“I think that he is very worried, and his speech means to defend corrupt officials. It is contrary to his speech [last year] in which he called on his own cabinet to clean themselves up,” Sokha said, before explaining what exactly he had promised CNRP district and commune councillors on Saturday in Siem Reap town.
“I talked about legal issues, and I just explained to the people that according to the internal regulations of the National Assembly, 30 lawmakers can raise a motion to [summons and] accuse a corrupt [minister], who can then be voted out if a majority is obtained – for which the CNRP only needs seven votes from the CPP.”
8 comments:
Do you folks really believe in Kem Sokha's words: 7 CPP officials in the National Assembly would vote with him to remove some CPP old and corrupted officials?
If they vote against their own party, the political careers are finished. Is Kem Sokha paying them with a great deal amount of money? Being tired of the old face is not a good enough motivation for the land of corruption. Are the Khmer folks that stupid to believe in Kem Sokha's words? Oh yes, Khmers are stupid alright.
What about CNRP's claim of some army are ready to support the fight and hint of a civil war. You really believe that? What a joke. CNRP do not have much money nor any army support. In Cambodia, you need money and power to get things done, not empty words.
Only desperate and stupid people would believed in these empty words and get scammed.
-Drgunzet-
I have found the Vietnamese poster named -Drgunzet- very disturbing, racist, controversial, outrageous and disgusted when reading his nonsense comments. His comments have not made any results even though his English is fairly good, but the mindset of -Drgunzet- is a real Communist style and it is the way -Drgunzet- inputs his ideas to try to make the real person or reader to lose his/her identity and not knowing where they are coming from. Just like Hanoi masters have taught the captured Khmer kids to be brainwashed and lose their identities, hate their own parents (just like Hun Sen did and killed his own mother), and beyond.
All of these bad and evil Vietnamese folks like -Drgunzet- are so f**ked up in their own evil and cruel mindsets, making these Vietnamese/Yuon folks become very dangerous. Should all the evil and violent Vietnamese folks like -Drgunzet- be eliminated from this planet before it is too late? China has the plan for this long time ago.
I used to do role-playing and play God against the fire ants at this research center I used to work at. Once a day, I would walk around the center's beautiful campus to relax and think over the difficult algorithm. But I hate the fire ants. If I stood on a wrong spot, some of them would climb onto my legs and stung me.
I gave a decree, "Fire ants, though shall not sting me. I am your Lord." Would the fire ants obeyed me? Heck no. I took a stick and whacked on the ant hills. Oh man, the ants went mad, went into a frenzy. So, I unzipped my pants and peed on the ant hill. lol, the ants were suffering under my toxic rain. They abandoned their nest the next day.
So, here on the Khmer forums, I am whacking my sticks on the Khmers. You guys are going mad, into frenzy. Just read your nasty comments and profanities. lol. I have not figured out how to dumb my toxic rain on your community yet, but I will.
Between the fire ants and the Khmer, I am sure the Khmer annoy me more.
-Drgunzet-
To the Vietnamese poster named -Drgunzet-:
Where is your answer for your illegal Vietnamese gangsters who slit our innocent Khmer youth with a sharp sword,-Drgunzet-?
John
-Drgunzet- is also insulting his own stupid Vietnamese race because he representing his stupid Vietnamese gooks including Mike (a Yuon/Viet gook uses the Westerner name Mike making him looks like a stupid While-Vietnamese gook. Later, his Vietnamese gooks want to smash -Drgunzet-'s head because he has made his Vietnamese gooks so embarrassed.
The ants ran away because they saw how small uour weiner was.if you behaved yourself and stop calling khmer people dumb and murderers they would not retaliate
Mr. Hun Sen scored yet another political victory again. He would receive appreciation, loyalty from his official for standing up on their behalves.
Kem Sokha will not receive hates. One day, he will be chased out of the National Assembly when Mr. Hun Sen allows so.
I would say this round:
Mr. Hun Sen: 1, Kem Sokha: 0
-Drgunzet-
-Drgunzet- is an illegal Vietnamese dog eater who supports the Vietnamese puppet Hun Sen. What kind of Vietnamese animal is that staying in other country (that he was not allowed and belonged to) and daring to say to talk like an uneducated Vietnamese wild animal or just Vietnamese little kid?
Vietnamese folks are way too much of taking too much advantages and then dare to bite someone's hands.
This is one of examples about evil Vietnamese dog eating creature does not have a sense of feeling but feeling like an animal who feeling with no thinking and no brain of suffering and pain of other.
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