CPP looks to hit opposition’s pocketbooks for parliamentary boycott

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Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns

 

Lawmakers who boycott meetings of the National Assembly or “insult and look down” on other MPs will have their salaries slashed and may be banned from future parliamentary meetings, according to a proposal made by the ruling CPP yesterday.

 

The proposal, made during a morning session of the assembly’s permanent committee, pointedly comes as the opposition CNRP considers ending a boycott of the body announced after armed police tried to arrest deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha on May 26.

 

The CPP’s proposed rules change specifies that lawmakers can only be absent from meetings of the parliament, its permanent committee or its specialist committees with the express permission of National Assembly President Heng Samrin.

 

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