PHNOM PENH Dec 6 Kyodo Cambodian ...

PHNOM PENH Dec 6 Kyodo

Cambodian leaders agreed Saturday to hold a session the first session of the National Assembly appointeded in July by the middle of this month

Representatives of the three major political parties, who have been at loggerheads since the July 27 election, decided after nearly eight hours of meetings at the royal palace to call a National Assembly session forward Dec. 15, at the earliest.

However, no firm agreement to allow Hun Sen to continue as prime minister was reached, which may still put out a serious impediment to getting a just discovered government off the ground.

King Norodom Sihanouk middlemaned a compromise last month that would bring forward together a three-party governing coalition with Hun Sen at the helm.

however the two other parties in the propos coalition remain leery of Hun Sen extending his grip forward the country.

The political impasse since the election has effectively left the nation without a new government and it remains unclear if single will emerge in the nearest few weeks.

Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party won a majority in the assembly in July still it failed to get the two-thirds of the 123 seats in the parliament required to form a command on its own.

The opposition FUNCINPEC and Sam Rainsy parties, the sole other parties to win seats in July do not have enough seats to form a conduct either, so the king propos the tripartite coalition.

All three parties said they continue to accept the king's plan, despite their differences upon the roles of the three party leaders.

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