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PHNOM PENH, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Seventy-nine percent of Cambodian
people said that Cambodia was headed in the right direction, a new
survey conducted by the U.S.-backed International Republican Institute
unveiled on Thursday.
The survey, conducted from Jan. 12 to Feb. 2, 2013, had been applied on 2,000 respondents who represented the Cambodian population, according to the survey.
It said that 79 percent of the respondents said the country was moving in the right direction because the government had built more roads, bridges, schools, health clinics, pagodas, irrigation systems and was working towards poverty reduction.
Twenty-one percent of the respondents said the nation was in the wrong direction, referring to corruption, illegal immigration, nepotism, damage to environment and fisheries, low crop prices for farmers, land grabbing and poverty, it said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said he was pleased to see the survey result.
"Based on the survey, I am really proud of my leadership," he said Thursday during the inauguration of new achievements at a Buddhist pagoda in eastern Kampong Cham province. "This truly shows that Cambodian people and my Cambodian People's Party are confident in me."
The survey was issued just months ahead of the country's general election, which will be held on July 28.
Some 9.67 million eligible Cambodians will cast their ballots in the upcoming polls for the 5th legislative term of the 123-seat parliament, according to the National Election Committee.
Eight parties will run in the election. Three major parties among them are the ruling Cambodian People's Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen, the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party led by self-exiled leader Sam Rainsy, and the royalist Funcinpec Party headed by Princess Norodom Arun Rasmey, the youngest daughter of late King Father Norodom Sihanouk.
Analysts predict that Hun Sen's party will win a landslide victory in the upcoming polls.
The survey, conducted from Jan. 12 to Feb. 2, 2013, had been applied on 2,000 respondents who represented the Cambodian population, according to the survey.
It said that 79 percent of the respondents said the country was moving in the right direction because the government had built more roads, bridges, schools, health clinics, pagodas, irrigation systems and was working towards poverty reduction.
Twenty-one percent of the respondents said the nation was in the wrong direction, referring to corruption, illegal immigration, nepotism, damage to environment and fisheries, low crop prices for farmers, land grabbing and poverty, it said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said he was pleased to see the survey result.
"Based on the survey, I am really proud of my leadership," he said Thursday during the inauguration of new achievements at a Buddhist pagoda in eastern Kampong Cham province. "This truly shows that Cambodian people and my Cambodian People's Party are confident in me."
The survey was issued just months ahead of the country's general election, which will be held on July 28.
Some 9.67 million eligible Cambodians will cast their ballots in the upcoming polls for the 5th legislative term of the 123-seat parliament, according to the National Election Committee.
Eight parties will run in the election. Three major parties among them are the ruling Cambodian People's Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen, the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party led by self-exiled leader Sam Rainsy, and the royalist Funcinpec Party headed by Princess Norodom Arun Rasmey, the youngest daughter of late King Father Norodom Sihanouk.
Analysts predict that Hun Sen's party will win a landslide victory in the upcoming polls.
Editor:
Wang Yuanyuan
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