CNRP get their say in National Assembly

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Meas Sokchea

The position of National Assembly spokesman will no longer be held exclusively by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, with the role to be split in three, allowing for two partisan representatives and one from the parliament’s secretariat.

The decision issued yesterday and signed by National Assembly President Heng Samrin follows reforms to the parliament’s internal regulations agreed to by the CPP and opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, approved late last month.

The CNRP had pushed for the role to be depoliticised, with long-time parliamentary spokesman Chheang Vun, also a CPP lawmaker, often criticised for bias in representing the body.

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