Cambodian PM vows to leave power ‘when I am 74’ – AFP, May 6, 2013
…”I became prime minister when I was 32. So I started the post when I was young and I am not yet old. It is a long time, but there is nothing wrong with a long time,” Hun Sen said in a speech broadcast on national radio.
“I will leave power when I am 74,” he added.
Cambodia has held general elections every five years since 1993, but Hun Sen has retained power amid a cloud of accusations that his regime suppresses political freedoms and mistreats rights campaigners…
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