Chea Xim cannot help Sam Rainsy return home
Chea Xim (L) with Hun Xen (R) (Photo: Reuters)18 Sept 2011
Yun Samean
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Komping Puoy
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Chea Xim, Senate president and CPP party president, declined to intervene with the government to drop its lawsuit against opposition leader Sam Rainsy and return his parliamentary immunity, as requested by Kong Korm, the SRP party deputy-president.
On Saturday 18 September, Yim Sovann, spokesman for the SRP, told RFA that the SRP will continue to seek international intervention so that opposition leader Sam Rainsy can return back to Cambodia to continue his political career after Chea Xim rejected his intervention in this case.
On 17 September, Chea Xim sent a letter to Kong Korm, indicating that the Senate cannot intervene in Sam Rainsy’s case because this case is in the hand of the court. Chea Xim claimed that the judicial branch is an independent branch that is set apart from the legislative branch.
On Saturday 18 September, Yim Sovann, spokesman for the SRP, told RFA that the SRP will continue to seek international intervention so that opposition leader Sam Rainsy can return back to Cambodia to continue his political career after Chea Xim rejected his intervention in this case.
On 17 September, Chea Xim sent a letter to Kong Korm, indicating that the Senate cannot intervene in Sam Rainsy’s case because this case is in the hand of the court. Chea Xim claimed that the judicial branch is an independent branch that is set apart from the legislative branch.
