លោក ហ៊ុន សែន ៖ ឆ្នាំ២០៤០ លោកនឹងក្លាយជាជីតានាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រី

Khmer Circle:

One of the most unwanted and irksome legacies of the Paris Peace Accords has to be the fact that Cambodia enjoys the privilege of being given, probably, the world's most liberal of constitutions on paper but at the same time the worst undemocratic 'Prime Minister' conceivable in practice.

No doubt, the architects of the Accords comprising countless numbers of the democratic world's brightest minds - diplomats, presidents, prime ministers, NGO leaders, legal consultants etc. would have at some stage thought about the idea of inserting the principle or rule governing 'term limit' into the constitution somewhere as a safeguard against potential manipulation or abuse of the post even if parliamentary democracy system that was to be adopted by the country does not in theory entail such a limit on the elected post of the prime minister. That's why Margareth Thatcher of England had earned her reputation as a 'democratic tyrant', for instance! Still, unlike Hun Sen of Cambodia Thatcher had eventually been forced out of office by her own cabinet colleagues who turned against her and there was no obvious attempt on her part to hand over the post of PM to any of her kins, let alone preparing a cross-generational dynastic rule from father to sons and from grandfather to grandsons that the former is now leaning towards.

To this day many a disappointed Khmer has been asking much the same question about the absence of term limit for the foremost political position in government. They should have asked this question, however, not to those foreigners and drafters of the constitution and the PPA, but rather to their very own revered King Father or 'King Ta' [Grandfather] who is known to have valued the importance of 'real politik', ‘national reconciliation’ and short-term personal gains for his own clan above those of theirs and or his 'children' and 'grandchildren' in the millions...

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