Phnom Penh (FN), Jul. 1 – Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen, president of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), solemnly promised that if the Cambodian People's Party wins the 7th Legislature National Assembly election on July 23, he will stand firm on the CPP’s strategic position and will lead the successful implementation of the CPP’s political program, which will be the political program of the Royal Government for the 7th legislature of the National Assembly.

“The Cambodian People's Party (CPP) has approved its support to me as the candidate for Prime Minister for the seventh legislative term and to Hun Manet as the candidate for Prime Minister for the future. Implementing this decision, I solemnly promise that if the Cambodian People's Party wins the 7th Legislature National Assembly election on July 23, I will stand firm on the above strategic position and will lead the successful implementation of the political program of the Cambodian People's Party, which will be the political program of the Royal Government for the 7th legislature of the National Assembly,” the premier addressed on Saturday (Jul 1) on the occasion of the opening election campaign for the 7th Legislature National Assembly and the commemoration of the 72nd founding anniversary of the CPP.

“In this spirit and in order to ensure the protection and promotion of the interests of the people, I will promote the effective implementation of the following priority policies:

1. Provide public services to the people in a transparent, easy and reliable manner; continue to provide birth registration, marriage registration, death list, provision of residence book, family book and Khmer identity card free of service charge;

2. Continue to impose no tax on household agricultural land, help farmers to expand production and find markets to sell agricultural produces at reasonable prices, allocate land and provide land ownership to poor landless families who have complied with the social land concession conditions, prevent Illegal occupation of all types of state land, and continue to provide land to people living and reaping the benefit on the state land location in accordance with the principles set by the state.

3. Continue to implement the principle of eliminating taxes and other fees for the people who are venders in baskets in various markets throughout the country, traders in the state market and state markets where traders have the right to own, use and reap the benefits from stalls, and have the right to transfer these rights to their children or others, continue to reduce the cost of living of the people through mechanisms to stabilize food prices and reduce water and electricity costs for the general population.

4. Promote the implementation of the policy of safe villages, communes and sangkats, continue to develop all communes/sangkats to have better communication roads by regularly repairing and maintaining new roads, building new roads and improving from dirt roads to paved or concrete roads, ensure adequate electricity and water supply, better irrigation and quality telecommunication services.

5. Continue to increase the salaries of all types of civil servants and the armed forces, continue to adjust and increase the pensions of former civil servants and veterans, continue to increase the minimum wage of workers and maintain other benefits for workers and employees, continue to implement the principle of non-taxation of the minimum wage of all types of civil servants and the minimum wage of workers/employees, promote the protection of rights and interests of the workers - both formal and informal, continue to implement cash support programs for poor and vulnerable families in times of emergency and crisis, continue to implement programs to support pregnant women and children under 2 years of age of poor families and support programs for female civil servants, interns and contracted officials as well as pregnant workers and children under 2 years old.

6. Promote the provision of quality, safe, effective and equitable health care services to the people. Expand primary schools to all villages, expand secondary schools to all communes and increase the number of high schools in districts, and provide young people with opportunities for vocational training and employment.”

“In addition, I will set out the six priority policies in the political program of the Royal Government of the 7th legislature of the National Assembly, including:

Program 1: Provision of health care towards a global health coverage program, starting with (1) providing health care services to more than 450,000 vulnerable families, equivalent to a total of more than 1. 5 million members through the use of health equity funds; and (2) expanding the health care regime for holders of national social security fund (NSSF) cards - both for workers and for public officials, which also covers more than 3 million family members, and their dependents on a voluntary basis. In total, the two projects will provide access to social security services for an estimated 7.4 million people.

Program 2: Provision of vocational and technical training for more than 1.5 million young people from poor and vulnerable families across the country at state vocational training institutions at the technical degree level, and Level 1 Vocation for which they do not pay tuition fees and will receive a monthly stipend.

Program 3: Establishment of a national social assistance program for poor families, vulnerable groups in poor households and vulnerable families in times of economic crisis and emergency to support and provide timely and systematically to the people, especially the poor and vulnerable families, and families vulnerable to risks according to the actual situation of the crisis or disaster in all geographical locations across the country, which will cover a total population of about 4.3 million people.

Program 4: Launching and promoting the implementation of the informal economic development strategy to be able to participate in the formal economy and be able to benefit from the formal social protection system through - (1) providing protection and development of a favorable environment for business and trade, as well as providing technical and vocational training to small and medium-sized enterprises, and (2) providing social protection to self-employed individuals in the informal economy with a primary focus on the provision of health care services under the Health Equity Fund.

Program 5: Introduction of coordination mechanisms and financing programs aimed at boosting production, marketing and maintaining balance of key agricultural prices at a reasonable level through the introduction of specific budget packages, starting at US$ 100 million, with the possibility to allocate more budgets if necessary to intervene in time to buy agricultural produces from farmers with the goal of maintaining price stability in each harvest season, especially on some agricultural produce such as rice, mango, longan, cashew nut, cassava, corn and other produces as needed.

Program 6: Deployment of technical officers to provide agricultural services to all rural communes throughout the country to promote agricultural productivity and assist farmers' families in promoting their agricultural products.”

“The political program of the Cambodian People's Party 2023-2028 is a continuation of the political program 2018-2023 and responds to the evolution of the actual situation both in the country and abroad. This political program is built on the sacred will and aspirations of the people and the realism that the party has the real capacity and ability to implement,” the statement underlined.
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