ប្រវត្តិសាស្រ្តបិទមុខ

Samdach Hun Sen admits: Wives of high-ranking CPP ministers meddling
with state affairs

Cham Prasidh and his wife, the powerful Lok Chumteav Tep Bopha
Prasidh, are well known
for running the Ministry of Commerce like their private business. Cham
Prasidh's children are holding
high ranking positions at their father's ministry.

Comrade Hor Nam Hong, standing in front of his wife, runs the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs like his own
business. His children hold high ranking position in his ministr

According to government workers, almost all government departments
have turned into private family ministries because the wives of the
ministers are meddling in the state business of their husbands, such
as ordering the demotion or promotion of government workers. At some
ministries, some ministers will nominate their children to important
positions. But, all of this is old news in Cambodia.

Hun Xen said that he heard the complaints raised by government workers
in a number of ministries that are involved with this problem, and he
compared the situation to the old proverbs whereby the husband would
be a captain, the wife a major, and their children colonels. This
reason stems from the fact that ministers' wives meddle in their
husbands' state affairs.

Hun Xen asked his ministers to tell their wives to just sleep at home
because the government workers really hate their husbands due to their
wives and children who rule over them. Hun Xen said that some
ministries have turned into the ministers' wives organization.

Hun Xen's speech was welcomed by loud applauses. These applauses are
mockery to these Chumteavs who like to meddle in their husbands' state
affairs, they are also sound of mockery to the ministers who allow
themselves to be led by the nose by their wives.