Ministers Told to Prepare for Public Scrutiny
During an epic speech on Wednesday that lasted for more than six-and-a-half hours, Prime Minister Hun Sen told his newly approved Cabinet that they would be subject to increased public scrutiny as part of a series of reforms to be undertaken by the CPP over the next five years. … “Police chiefs and military police commanders or forestry and fisheries chiefs stationed in an area must attend public consultation in that area, allowing people to point their fingers at their faces,” Mr. Hun Sen added. The prime minister, who this week has pushed forward with the formation of a new, one-party government despite a boycott of the National Assembly by opposition lawmakers, said that parliament and civil society would also play a role in keeping his government clean. Mr. Hun Sen also asked Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana to fast-track a series of long-overdue judicial reforms to address the ills of Cambodia’s judiciary. “We have to acknowledge our mistake that we could not enact these laws during the entirety of the last mandate. Now the only way [forward] is to dissolve the Supreme Council of State Reform and fully hand over legal and judicial reform to the justice minister,” he said. … “The opening of the National Assembly under a one-party system already signifies that real reforms are not on the agenda of the CPP. You can’t do reforms by yourself, especially when you were the one who for so long failed to respond,” she [Senior CNRP lawmaker Mu Sochua] said. …
Hul Reaksmey
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