Hun Sen: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen says he will step down in 3 weeks and his son will succeed him

PHNOM PENH: Longtime Cambodian chief Hun Sen mentioned Wednesday he’ll step down in three weeks as prime minister and hand the place to his oldest son, who received his first seat in parliament in Sunday’s election.

The announcement got here after their Cambodian Folks’s Occasion received a landslide victory in weekend elections that Western international locations and rights organizations criticized as neither free nor honest, and during which the nation’s most important opposition was suppressed.
Hun Sen has been Cambodia’s autocratic chief for 38 years however mentioned forward of the elections he would hand off the place to his oldest son, Hun Manet, someday in the course of the subsequent five-year time period.

Hun Manet, 45, is presently the chief of the nation’s military.
In a televised deal with, Hun Sen, who’s Asia’s longest-serving chief, mentioned he had knowledgeable King Norodom Sihamoni of his resolution and that the king had agreed.
Hun Sen mentioned his son could be named prime minister after the Nationwide Election Fee experiences the ultimate outcomes of Sunday’s election, during which the CPP received 120 of 125 seats.
He has additionally mentioned {that a} new era would take over lots of the prime ministerial positions within the new authorities, which he mentioned could be fashioned Aug. 22.
Regardless that he’s stepping down from the premiership, Hun Sen is broadly anticipated to stay intently concerned in operating Cambodia, and can also be to develop into president of the nation’s senate.