Cambodia: Prime Minister Insists
He’ll Stay in Power
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 2, 2013
Hopes for a
compromise solution to a deadlock over Cambodia’s
election results faded Friday as Prime Minister Hun Sen
insisted that he could form a new government even if the opposition boycotted
Parliament. Mr. Hun Sen said the Constitution allowed Parliament to carry out
its tasks with a simple majority of its 123 members present.
Several
independent nonpartisan agencies interpret the law to call for a quorum of at
least 120 members to be present to open the new assembly session and form a
government. Mr. Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party said provisional results
showed that it won 68 seats to the opposition’s 55. The opposition Cambodia
National Rescue Party said that it had won 63 seats and that voting
irregularities had been widespread.
The results
from the government-appointed National Election Committee are still
provisional. “There will be no deadlock for the new National Assembly and the
forming of a new government,” Mr. Hun Sen said Friday. “I will be the prime
minister for the fifth five-year term of the government.”
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