As soon as the Ministry of Interior approves their amended statute, the opposition party CNRP will organize a meeting to nominate vice presidents of the party again.
According to Eng Chhay Eang, one of the three current vice presidents nominated at the party extraordinary congress on March 2, the CNRP plans to redo the nomination of the three vice presidents again in a meeting of the CNRP's steering committee as soon as the Ministry of Interior approves the CNRP's amended statute.
"We are waiting the official approval from the Ministry of Interior concerning the amendment of Article 45 and Article 47 of our party's statute. Actually, they already said they approved them, but it's just a verbal statement, we prefer an official written letter," said Mr. Chhay Eang.
Regarding Kem Sokha, the current president of the CNRP, Mr. Chhay Eang said that it won't be any change for Mr. Sokha - according to the party's old statute as well as the amended statute, Mr. Sokha is automatically nominated as the CNRP's president.
In the same way, on Thursday, after the ceremony of the twentieth anniversary of the grenade attack in front of the old National Assembly, Mr. Sokha told reporters that he was not concern too much about the denial of the ministry concerning the legitimacy of his party's leadership. "I am the president, according to the old statute as well as the amended statute, I am always president. Nothing could change that," said Mr. Sokha.
In a press conference at the Ministry of Interior on Thursday, Bun Honn, an undersecretary of state at the ministry, said that people should know very well how to do the right thing. The problem is they act like they don't know. And it was not the ministry's job to tell them how to do the right thing.
Regarding this issue, an anonymous political analyst said that in politics as in chess game, players never dare to tell their opponents how to do the right move, they rather tell their opponents how to do the wrong move. The truth is both sides know very well how to do the right move.
Besides waiting for the ministry's approval, Mr. Chhay Eang added that the CNRP will also inform their members to not using the slogan "Replace commune chief serving the party by commune chief serving the people" for the upcoming commune election.
The discuss about the legitimacy of the extraordinary congress carried out by the opposition party CNRP in order to nominate their new president and vice presidents, representatives from CNRP and from the Ministry of Interior met each other on Wednesday at the headquarter of the ministry.
After the meeting, Prak Som Oeun, a representative from the ministry, told reporters that his ministry still wanted to hold their position to not recognize the new president and vice presidents of the CNRP.
Regarding this issue, his ministry would like to see the CNRP "SOLVE THIS PROBLEM", and change their slogan. If not, the CNRP will face legal measures relating to the Law on Political Parties.
After Mr. Kem Sokha was nominated as the new president of the opposition party CNRP on March 2, in the same day, Prime Minister Hun Sen sent a letter to congratulate Mr. Sokha.
"On the occasion that Your Excellency was nominated as the president of the CNRP, I wish Your Excellency and your family live in a healthy and happy life," wrote Prime Minister Hun Sen in his letter to Mr. Sokha.
However, on March 22, the Ministry of Interior sent a letter to the CNRP stating that the nomination for Mr. Sokha to be the president, Pol Ham, Mu Sochua and Eng Chhay Eang, to be vice presidents of the CNRP, did not conform to Article 47 of the CNRP's bylaws - Mr. Sokha was nominated in less than 18 months after Mr. Sam Rainsy, former CNRP's, resigned in February 11.
The letter also asks the CNRP to change their slogan "Replace commune chief serving the party by commune chief serving the people".
According to the ministry, the slogan is against the 1993 Constitution, the Law on Political Parties, the Law on the Election of the Commune, the Law on the Administrative Management of Commune, and the Cambodian democratic and proportional representation principle.
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