BANGKOK - At about 8am on July 23, the man who would be Cambodia’s prime minister arrived in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork Primary School.
An onlooker asked to take a photograph with him. He stopped and reached out to her, smiling broadly for the picture – just as his father would have. He rose up the military ranks to head Cambodia’s army before running as a CPP candidate in the recent election.in the National Assembly and 82 per cent of the valid votes cast.– on Thursday declared the high vote share an endorsement of his successor.
“Manet comes across as affable, sociable, progressive-minded and clear-minded in terms of national priorities,” says Mr Michael Tan, chief executive of Aquarii BD Cambodia, a Phnom Phenh-based business consultancy. “He has no airs about him.” “He always asked how our local staff were doing, whether they were up to standard, or if there was any area they needed to improve on,” said Mr Wong.
Mr Tan said of Mr Hun Manet: “I gather from what he was trying to convey, from various sound bites, was the need to build on, and continually improve, the government’s partnership with the people, to better connect with them.”