Khmer Times/Pav Suy

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday lambasted opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s accusation that the 2013 election was riddled with irregularities.

The opposition leader said the irregularities were the reason for the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s loss.

“Now he [sam Rainsy] has nothing more to talk about and is back to the old form of ‘election fraud’,” Mr. Hun Sen said during the launch of a new industrial development policy aimed at boosting the manufacturing sector and exports.

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Dinner lives on for PM, Rainsy

Thu, 27 August 2015

Meas Sokchea

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday continued his full-bore attack on the opposition, lashing out at Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy for comments to the French press about the pair’s children working together to ensure a democratic future.

In a speech yesterday to launch an industrial development policy at the Council of Ministers, the premier also confronted an American diplomat over remarks by CNRP deputy president Kem Sokha that the party was backed by a powerful democratic country.

But it was Rainsy’s remarks related to a dinner between the two leaders and their families in July, heralded at the time as “historic” proof the pair had moved beyond their old combative ways amid the so-called the culture of dialogue, that drew Hun Sen’s ire.

Following the meal, Rainsy told French newspaper Liberation that Hun Sen, aware his reign was ending, had changed and, desiring a transition and political legitimacy for his children, wanted the pair’s kids to connect.

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