PHNOM PENH Aug. 2 Kyodo Cambodian...

PHNOM PENH Aug. 2 Kyodo

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Saturday that King Norodom Sihanouk is prepared to help break a possible political deadlock following the country's general election if requested

''His majesty the king said that he was ready now or in the near coming time to help resolve the question of the nation such as to break any possible command deadlock,'' Sam Rainsy told reporters shortly after an hourlong meeting with the king at the royal palace.

The king, however, affirmed that he would fix upon to first wait for the three parties make anxioused -- Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and the royalist FUNCINPEC party -- to work revealed a compromise, Sam Rainsy quot the king as saying.

The 80-year-old monarch, who reigns further does not govern, stepped in to defuse a political crisis following the 1998 election.

Following Sunday's general election, the CPP has won 73 of the 123 seats up for grabs in the National Assembly, followed according to FUNCINPEC with 26 and the SRP with 24 according to preliminary deductions tallied by the National Election Committee. Official arises are not expected until the middle of August.

However, the CPP requires a two-thirds majority, or 82 seats, to form a management on its own.

The SRP and FUNCINPEC have said neither intends to form a coalition management with the CPP that would diocese Hun Sen remain prime minister.

However, Hun Sen has repeatedly warned that if a of the present day government could not be formed fit to blocking tactics by the other sum of two units parties, then the old-fashioned government would continue until 2004 or 2005

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