Hun Sen: Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen marks birthday with election victory confirmation
Final month’s election was extensively decried as a sham after the opposition Candlelight Celebration — the highest challenger to the ruling get together — was barred from the competition over a technicality.
Hun Sen — who has dominated for practically 4 a long time — introduced days after the polls that he was stepping down as prime minister and passing the baton to Hun Manet.
His ruling Cambodian Folks’s Celebration (CPP) received 120 seats within the 125-member decrease home, the Nationwide Election Committee stated because it launched the official outcomes Saturday.
Instantly after the announcement, the CPP issued a press release saying it accepted the outcomes, which they stated proved Cambodians “help Hun Manet because the successor”.
The royalist FUNCINPEC get together took the remaining 5 seats.
The election committee additionally confirmed that four-star basic Hun Manet, 45, was elected as an MP, a requirement for him to change into prime minister.
The US, United Nations and the European Union have condemned the election as neither free nor honest.
The official outcomes permit Hun Sen to proceed together with his plan to ask the king to nominate Hun Manet as prime minister on Monday so he can kind a brand new authorities for a parliamentary confidence vote on August 22.
The incoming authorities will usher in a brand new crop of younger ministers — with some taking posts vacated by their fathers.
On Thursday, Hun Sen rejected worldwide criticism of the elections and defended his choice handy energy to his son.
He stated his handover to Hun Manet — a dynastic succession in contrast by some critics to North Korea — was being carried out to keep up peace and keep away from “bloodshed” ought to he die in workplace.
Hun Manet on Saturday posted an image on social media of his younger son handing his father a bouquet of blue and yellow flowers with the message: “Pleased birthday to revered and beloved father”.
The previous Khmer Rouge cadre has run Cambodia since 1985, and has successfully eradicated all opposition to his energy, with rival events banned, challengers compelled to flee and freedom of expression stifled.
He helped modernise a rustic ravaged by a long time of civil battle and genocide with roads, mega-malls and substantial Chinese language funding.
After stepping down as prime minister, Hun Sen will change into president of the Senate early subsequent yr and shall be appearing head of state when the king is abroad.
