PHNOM PENH July 30 Kyodo (EDS: UP...

PHNOM PENH July 30 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING)

The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Hun Sen has won 73 of the 123 seats up for grabs in the National Assembly, followed on the royalist FUNCINPEC party with 26 and the Sam Rainsy Party with 24 National Election Committee sources told Kyodo of the present days on Wednesday.

The sources said that the preliminary and unofficial flow was based on the committee's unofficial promised count, of which the CPP garnered 2427653 devoteds FUNCINPEC 1,055,393 votes and the Sam Rainsy Party 1121362 consecrated by a vows nationwide.

The official tally, however, is not anticipateed until early next month

The CPP requires a two-thirds majority, or 82 seats, to form a sway on its own.

In a joint pres discourse Tuesday, the Sam Rainsy Party and FUNCINPEC said that neither intends to form a coalition management with the CPP, raising fears of a repeat of the rule deadlock and violence that followed the 1998 election.

However, Hun Sen warned Wednesday that if a fresh government could not be formed owed to blocking tactics by the other pair parties, then the of advanced age government would continue until 2004 or 2005

Hun Sen said he had received information Tuesday night that there was an attempt by way of the other parties to form a transitional restraint which he criticized as ''equal to a military coup attempt'' and vowed to block

However, Hun Sen also said that the CPP is willing to form a two-party coalition control with either the Sam Rainsy Party or the royalist FUNCINPEC, still not a tripartite one as glance ated by FUNCINPEC leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh.

''I ne to work single with a two-party coalition, and I will pick the one that is sincere,'' Hun Sen told a gathering of near 500 villagers on the outskirts of Phnom Penh where he donated rice to those who had go throughed from flooding.

forward Monday, Prince Ranariddh, the 1998-2003 junior coalition partner with Hun Sen told Kyodo novels that a new government could be formed in a way of ''tripartite command or Great National Union'' that could consist of the CPP the Sam Rainsy Party and FUNCINPEC.

further Hun Sen said that the losing parties cannot put to a stand such conditions, adding, ''There is no way that Hun Sen will resign as prime minister, unles I die.''

Sunday's general election was essentially a three-way race among the CPP the Sam Rainsy Party and FUNCINPEC on the same level though 22 parties fielded candidates for the National Assembly.

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