(보도) The Cambodia Daily 2013-9-18 (요약) 크메르의 세계
캄보디아 국회, "9월23일(월) 국회 개원식 예정대로 진행" 발표
Threat of National Assembly Boycott Presents Royal Conundrum
- 야당인 '캄보디아 구국당'(CNRP)은 노로돔 시하모니 국왕이 9월23일(일)에 주재할 것이라고 예고했던 국회 개원식의 등원에 여전히 참석 거부 입장을 유지하고 있지만, 캄보디아 국회는 화요일(9.17) 발표를 통해, 국회 개원식을 오전 8시에 예정대로 진행할 것이라고 밝혔다.
- 캄보디아 헌법에 따르면 국왕은 총선 실시 후 60일 이내에 국회의 개원식을 주재해야만 하지만, 총 123석 중 55석을 갖고 있는 야당 의원들이 선거부정의 조사를 요구하며 개원식 등원을 거부하겠다고 함에 따라, 시하모니 국왕이 정치적 고민에 빠져있다.
- 현재 삼 랑시 총재와 훈센 총리 사이에 여야 영수회담이 진행 중이어서, 야당은 국회 개원식 참석 가능성을 완전히 닫아두고 있는 것은 아니다.
- 하지만 협상에서 정치적 해법을 도출하지 못할 경우 야당이 참석하지 않을 것이고, 그 경우 국회 개원식 자체가 정치적 편향 움직임으로 여겨질 수도 있다.
- 정치평론가들은 국왕이 여당 단독의 국회를 개원하기보다는, 여당이 국왕에게 개원을 연기해달라고 요청하는 형식이 더 나을 수 있다고 조언함.
기사작성 : Zsombor Peter
Despite the opposition CNRP’s ongoing threats to boycott the opening of parliament next Monday, the National Assembly on Tuesday officially announced that King Norodom Sihamoni will open the first session of the new legislature as scheduled.
“On Monday, September 23, at 8 o’clock in the morning, the National Assembly in the fifth mandate will open the first session under the chairmanship of His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni,” the Assembly’s general secretariat said in a statement.
The Constitution requires the King to open parliament within 60 days of the last national election.
Observers and analysts, however, said the King faces a predicament if the opposition and its 55 lawmakers carry through with their boycott threats.
The CNRP has not yet shut the door on attending the opening session and is in the midst of negotiations with Prime Minister Hun Sen aiming to find a compromise that would avoid it. But if those efforts fail, the decision to continue with the scheduled opening may give the impression of partiality, they said.
“Maybe the public does not want to see the King open it unless the two parties agree” on joining the meeting, political analyst Chea Vannath said. “It’s not the best scenario.”
Political analyst Kem Ley said that the decision to convene the Assembly without the CNRP would likely alienate the nearly one half of the country’s electorate that voted for the opposition in July. “It would have a huge impact…the people who support the CNRP will be upset,” Mr. Ley said.
For his part, Mr. Ley expects that the CPP and CNRP will reach a compromise before Monday’s meeting that would allow the opposition to show up, and the King to perform his constitutional duty.
But, if no agreement is reached, Mr. Ley predicted that it would be the CPP that would ask for the delay, so as not to put the monarchy, as a beloved institution, in a compromising situation vis-à-vis the competing political parties.
Oum Daravuth, a member of the Royal Palace Cabinet, declined to comment on the matter.
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