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president bumble marcus junior gets his state of the union, patchy delivered for his country or has some of his popularity faded. we take a closer look the . my name is melissa chan. thanks for joining us. after 38 years in charge, cambodian leader hon send transfers power to his son hon manette in a pre ordained election. or you might call it selection in what is essentially a one party autocracy. according to the ruling can vote at people's party, the sun one and a land slide against a largely absent opposition. dw scared matches reports from non pen and he is the big winner of the selection. forestall general holden mindset, the son of current lead a consent. he's expected to inherit the position of prime minister from his father

in just a few weeks. all you had to say today about his future plans was this, the coming of the ruling can body and people's party needn't worry about the elections that were. the only serious opposition party was disqualified on a technicality. while the 9700000 people are registered to vote, despite the lack of competition, some are hopeful of what new leadership might bring on the head of got you off. i'm not sure what his actual plan is for the future, but what i hope is that who minute will improve our livelihood in gentlemen are doing. i want him to reduce the corruption of the grass roots level. don't make people suffer if you can achieve bit. i'm happy to take this wide step long a new product. i hope the new government will improve the health care system. they will also need to improve the education system and bring down the price for studying. no, i know my a problem with that with all the lice,

with curves on communication, voter intimidation, and the band or position the list of violations as long as kept international election monitors over a few absorbers. i was surprised that none of the 17 other small, poorly funded parties have a realistic chance of success the most up uh television station or the owner of the both of the television. uh they, uh, the businessman, who are close to describing is the, uh, the ruling body in, in cambodia. this is the revision that a position party, they do not have opportunity uh pays and about uh for the to call up that phone to the public to devote a one man that was educated in the united states and britain having gained a legislative seat, he's eligible to become prime minister, but it's not clear how much change that would bring. you never really retire from

politics is what they say in cambodia. and it also applies to the countries leader consent, even if he is to handle the power to his eldest son. soon after this election, he's expected to remain the president of the composer and people's party and pull strings from behind the scenes. joining us from non pen is dw derrick mathis georg, can you tell us a little bit more about hun, minette? the son know actually met him when he comes to salads. uh there was, of course, a huge media attention there. i would say he's a rather calm person. he's obviously a highly educated. he holds ph. d from the u. k. in economics, he's studied in the united states, he's a 4 star general. so on paper, he has everything up a new country, so the leader would need to assume that he's been in the military. you also have the, the capabilities to, to actually change things in the company. on the other hand, some people hear that,

you know, we never retire from politics and combos. yeah. and that means also his father won't fully retire, even if he hands over power within the next couple of weeks. that means this father will remain the president of the component people's party and pull strings from behind the scenes. now this is the single party stage with what has essentially been a performative election with a priority and outcome as your report. also pointed out of having said that, what are some of the challenges facing the country that citizens might want to see action on from the new leadership? i think 1st of all minutes i wonder what needs to point out really when speaking about cambodia after the election like this is that's the track record off of one send the long disturbing leader in southeast asia. isn't all that bad when it comes to the economy, he really low at the property line and has brought wealth to this country? the big question is, how is this well being distributed, you'll see

a lot of other rockies for robberies, poor she driving in the capital here. but when the countryside things look very different. so this is something a new leader would have to tackle. and then there are other big issues like corruptions, like the education system, that is a too expensive and what many people have told me here is the health system needs radical change. many people here who need medical attention travel to neighboring thailand because they can't afford the cost of medical services here in cambodia. very quickly. are there any hints that a younger leader might need more liberalization? politically? yes, of course you could argue, you know, all the, all the critical opponents i have seen exiled. and in fact, there has been a loyal introduce, that whoever did not participate in this election will never be able to hold any political position in the country. so on the one and you put their full say up the system can relax and a little bit more freedom,

uh and home. and that may actually be that person because he has been educated in the west on the other. and people say, is the classical pattern trying? should people always be careful what kind of changes they do? otherwise the whole house of cards might fall together scared mattress. thank you so much for joining us. the in the philippines president bum bum marcus junior, delivered his 2nd state of the union. the country faces many of the same challenges that we've seen. other places grapple with globally, a need to jumpstart the economy and strengthen the health system. after several years of the coven pandemic, mark was also discussed in manila for an policy. it is also imperative that our nation remains intact and inviolable our sovereignty preserve. we will protect our sovereign rights and preserve our debit, arial integrity in defense of the rules based international order. well,

joining us in the studio is journalist on us santos. i know those comments just now . he talks about a rules based international order. what does he mean and is his foreign policy any differential from the previous president, rodrigo detailed to n y? well, 1st let's talk about that rules based policy thing that he just taught out there. we can only assume that this is pertaining to the test, the relations between china regarding the west for the pnc and also the relationship of the philippines is trying to and has rekindled with the west and the west. philippine see is what china calls the south china sea. yes. but because of the head ruling that we are over the territory, a dispute with the philippines, most of the philippines close at the west philippine c. that's look at what's happening here. last year, president marcus had much stronger words about defending the philippines. he said we will not surrender an inch of the philippines, but still said we will be friends to all and enemies to none. he kept that friends

to all in enemies to non line, but didn't have such a strong statement about not surrendering an inch of the philippine territory. let's look at what's different now for sure to your question. has he changed with regard to us policy? definitely, the mark us administration is much more congenial to the us child, we say. and we've seen this with the visit of vice president, come on harris to the philippines and the strength and defense agreements between the philippines and the us. which now has allowed the building a for us spaces, strategically positioned to tie one. so let's look at also where that comes in with the, with china. the president is still trying to maintain trade relations with china. he mentioned in the same china, in his speech. but china is a friend to me, right. it's a trade partner that was also in coaching on our territory. so we see marcus walking a tightrope between these 2 friends slash allies slash frenemy the us and china. very interesting. now he also talked about the great numbers of philippine overseas

workers. i want to play that sound by it is our wish that one day foreign employment will be driven by choice, not by necessity. it remains a noble calling that are all with the use of answer required in great sacrifice from them, their families and their communities. we are engaging with our partners in the international community to ensure a safe working environment for our country. and that's we do so we are also putting in place responsive mechanisms for the social welfare ration and re integration of our returning o. s. w's into the philippines economy. and i understand that the money sent home by the philippine workers at up to anywhere from 8 to 10 percent of annual gdp business. huge. what is he talking about when he's talking about this safe working environment? well, most of the overseas,

filipino migrant workers are deployed to the middle east. so as you can, as it's been widely reported that there are lots of labor abuses in the middle east because of the fall of system that governs the employer and employee relationships . right. so he talked a lot about deployment conditions, so protecting overseas workers in their host country. it's still about deployments melissa, but i was happy with just mention of re integration. and so, as i mentioned, a lot of the filipino workers are in the middle east. in these countries, you will never have a pass to citizenship, right? that's just the way it works there. so at some point these workers would have to come home and what are they going to come home to? let's hope it's not the, but it's not the poverty that they tried to escape from. yeah, and so let's stick to that. he also made some comments about the domestic economy. the inflation rate is moving in the right direction. from 8.7 percent in january. our inflation has continued to ease up in all regions setting now at 5.4

percent. for this for june. what this means is that in spite of all the difficulties, we are transforming the economy, we are subsidizing the prices of old political commodities. so are people buying that or has his approval rating dropped? i understand there's been opposition protests to peg to, to the state of the union. me there has been and you know, well, president mark us remains the popular popularity ratings hovering at like 70 percent or so. but that's really dented by his promise to improve the economy. you know, people have been saying about this on us page. it's that it's so far away from the got, you know, he says inflation has lowered, but they don't feel it. they still can't afford the basic things like bread, rice, and the cost of petrol. so no, they're not buying this and his, his, um, his, his mention of an improving economy left us wondering how power do want to improve

the economy. where was a promise of more job creation? where was a promise of improving working conditions for filipinos? that was where people want that was what more people wanted to hear. and that was just really quite absent in this state of the nation address. like many other state of the unions around the world where the leader says everything that the citizens might want to hear. but of course it's all in the implementation on a santos, thanks so much for joining us. thank you. minutes. and that's it for the program. as always, go on our website to catch more news from the region dw dot com, forward slash asia. i lost the chance. thanks for watching and see you tomorrow. the got some hot tips for your bucket list, the magic corner check. hot spot.

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