PM marks more than three decades in power

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Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday marked his 35 years in power by promising that he will never hand it over to his oldest son Hun Manet but through an election. Speaking yesterday evening during an annual meeting with local journalists in Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich exhibition centre, Mr Hun Sen said that he will not handpick Lieutenant General Manet, RCAF army commander, to succeed him.

 

“I need to be prime minister for another 10 years. If Manet is qualified, he will have to wait for another 10 years,” he said, noting that he will be a prime minister till 2028. “We are a democratic country. It is not a country that we transfer power from father to son as some countries do. We have to go through the elections.”

 

According to Mr Hun Sen’s cabinet, he became Foreign Minister of People’s Republic of Kampuchea in 1979 after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, then as deputy prime minister and Foreign Minister from 1981 to 1985. He first took office as Prime Minister on January 14, 1985, after he was unanimously elected by the National Assembly to succeed Chan Sy, who had died in office in December 1984.

 

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If the population gets the chance, he will be shredded to pieces