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Saturday 30 May 2009

SRP and HRP staged a mass walk out, the CPP accused them of violating the internal rules of parliament

Source: Deum Ampil newspaper
Reported in English by Khmerization

Twenty two MP's from the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and the Human Right Party (HRP) had staged a mass walk out of parliament yesterday, after Mr. Heng Samrin, the president of the National Assembly, rejected their proposals for amendment to the draft bill for the strengthening of human right protection for disabled people in Cambodia, reports Deum Ampil.

During the parliamentary session on Friday 29th May, the SRP and the HRP had submitted a proposal for the amendment of the draft bill for the protection and the strengthening of the rights of disabled people, but their proposal was swiftly rejected by the president of the National Assembly.

Twenty two MP's from the two opposition parties then started a mass walk out. The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) hit back by saying that the oppositions' walk out was in violation of the internal rules of parliament and a contempt of the parliament. The CPP said that its MPs had discussed a possibility whether to consider the pay cut for those opposition MP's who boycotted the parliamentary session without the parliament's permission.

Mrs. Mu Sochua, MP from the SRP, said that, in principle, the oppositions support the draft bill but wanted to add certain provisions to the draft bill. She said: "In principle, the two opposition parties support the wording of the draft bill but we want to add some provisions in order to further strengthening the effectiveness in the protection and the promotion of disabled people. But, sadly, our proposal had been outrightly rejected by the 72 MP's from the CPP, Funcinpec and the Norodom Ranariddh Party, even before they have a chance to read the contents of the proposal."

Mr. Chheang Vun, chairman of the 5th Parliamentary Commission in charge of foreign affairs and international cooperation, said that the ruling CPP will not pay attention to the oppositions' protest walk out. He said: "During this morning's parliamentary session, the Samdech President of the National Assembly has correctly conducted the business of the parliament in accordance with internal rules of the parliamentary procedures. All the provisions of the draft bill had provided enough protections for the disabled people, so all the MP's did not support the amendments from the opposition SRP and HRP parties."

On the morning of the parliamentary session on Friday, the opposition parties had submitted their proposal for consideration but the president of the National Assembly refused to distribute their proposal to all MP's for the reading and consideration. All 22 oppositions' MPs present staged a mass walk out.

According to Deum Ampil, the MP's from the ruling CPP had discussed about the possibility of cutting of the pay of those MPs who had staged a walk out.

Read their statement below:


MPs from SRP & HRP boycotted in National Assembly's session on May 29, 2009
Please click full text in Khmer at http://tinyurl.com/lu8vga

SRP Cabinet

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