Provincial Office of Cambodian Parliament Member
Sep.25, 2008 in
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Those who travel to provinces, especially at provincial towns may use to see office of Cambodian parliament members. I used to travel many provinces and once I saw the office, the office always closed. Recently in early September 2008, I went to Ratanakiri and I still see the office closed. You can see the picture I took while I was at Ratanakiri provincial town on the working day.
I do not know how much the efficient of works of the representives to serve their constituencies or even not know how is their works to help people. But I just think that if the office is closed, then no body inside work in the office.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:36
Hi Sokthy;
I am new to your website and hope that you would not mind that I left a comment here.
Personally, don’t think that our parliamentarians have a proper and fixed office in any provinces and don’t think that they have been visiting their constituency [province they are representing] enough except during a political campaign.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:36
I think most of them visit provinces in election campaign. But i still see that though they go to province, but they may not go to their offices in the province. There should be budget for office and those who work in the provincial offices. Budget for administration should be allocated as well.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:36
Our national budget is still somehow constraint that would allow RG to allocate budget both for office and administartion for all political parties [who are in the parliament]. Hope one day our national coffer could afford to do so.
At the mean time, all political parties shall do their best [with their own budget] to be in touch with people they are representing.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:36
I think so. As you said, it is very hard to allocate more budget for that. Today, the government pays very much money to government’s cabinet and its members. But this also says that the government could afford money to pay for parliament members and their provincial administration offices.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:36
It is highly unlikely that this [budget for office and administration] will happend in near future but I would love to see it happend.
In democratic country such as Australia [federal government] both government and opposition party have office in all states where they are representing and is funding by federal government and party they are belong.
The deal strucked to end the boycott has similar issue where oppostion party actuallly want the RG to change parliament internal rule[s] and funding for creating of parliament watch-dog [shadow ministry?] in order to perform checks and balances on RG. Can’t wait to see if the change[s] will surface.