Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks at a CPP campaign rally in Phnom Penh on Friday. Heng Chivoan
Mon, 5 June 2017
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Prime Minister Hun Sen pointed out in a Facebook post today that the opposition had failed to wrest control of the Senate from his ruling Cambodian People's Party, despite having hoped to do so, losing out on crucial constitutional powers in the process.
Only commune councillors vote in the six-yearly Senate elections – the next is due by January 2018 – and the senator selected as the chamber’s president holds the constitutional powers of head of state when the king is abroad. CPP Vice President Say Chhum presently holds the position.
“They campaigned saying that in 2017 they would take the communes and the Senate,” Hun Sen wrote on Facebook in reference to the opposition, noting that if the party won a majority on Sunday it would have gained great constitutional powers very soon.
The Senate president has always come from Hun Sen’s CPP and has in the past used the constitutional powers of the position to approve controversial laws while the king was away. Yet the prime minister wrote that there was no risk of losing that power.
“The Cambodian People’s Party will continue to lead with a majority of the votes in the Senate,” he said.
1 comment:
Yeah right, Ah Kork Hun Sen. You are dreaming and hoping that you will stay in power, but you have been hated and discredited by the majority of Cambodian people and the victims of your lazy-ass CPP crooks and your Vietnamese masters in Hanoi. You want to get away from murders and crimes your have committed, Ah Yong Yuon and Ah Kork Hun Sen.
You are a very cheap and disgusted human and you are a very evil bastard made in your friend's country called "a Communist Vietcong" where your lovely ghost Ho Chi Minh buried in hell. You will join that evil Ho Chi Minh because you are faithful to bastard Ho Chi Minh.
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