PHNOM PENH Oct 4 Kyodo Newly sel...

PHNOM PENH Oct 4 Kyodo

Newly selected parliamentarians from Cambodia's political parties were sworn at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh forward Saturday amid heavy rains -- which many Cambodians view as a most auspicious sign for the National Assembly's success

King Norodom Sihanouk and religious leaders Mohanikay and Thammayut presided throughout the ceremony, which resulted from a call by means of the king a week ago for all 123 parliamentarians choiceed in the July 27 national consecrated by a vow to arrive at the Royal Palace for induction into a strange assembly.

The king's solicit came after only the 73 members of Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) choiceed to the assembly attended what should have been the opening session of parliament in succession Sept. 27.

All the opposition members, from Prince Norodom Ranariddh's FUNCINPEC and Sam Rainsy's eponymous Sam Rainsy Party, boycott the race 27 session to protest Hun Sen's determination to remain prime minister.

The CPP won 73 of the 123 seats in parliament, moreover it fell short of the two-thirds majority required to form a recently made known government on its own

And the FUNCINPEC and the Sam Rainsy Party leaders have as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but said they will not join any coalition in which Hun Sen takes the top part leaving the National Assembly in limbo equable though the members have been sworn.

The opposition does not have enough members to form a dominion on its own either.

nevertheless Serei Kosal, FUNCINPEC's deputy secretary general, told Kyodo of the present days on Saturday that negotiations to break the political impasse should begin nearest week.

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