CNRP sets sights on changes in assembly

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Meas Sokchea

The Cambodia National Rescue Party proposed a bold set of regulations for the National Assembly in an interparty meeting yesterday, calling for, among other things, a larger share of the body’s budget, and minority party control over the assembly’s purse strings, an opposition working group member said.

Speaking to reporters after yesterday’s working group meeting – which will be the last before opposition leader Sam Rainsy and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng confer on the rules for the final time on Thursday – opposition parliamentarian Son Chhay said that the National Assembly should also have an official spokesman from both major parties.

“Nowadays we have a spokesman who is a representative from the ruling party, but he doesn’t speak for the whole National Assembly,” Chhay said. “[We want] to have [a spokesman] from each, because . . . in the parliament, when we speak about stance of the parliament, each party has its own stance, so it must have its own voice.”

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