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the free time, but still very much alive. your guy to the special in germany recognizes where exactly it was fine. i have learned a lot of our culture history, all their travel extremely worth a visit. the you're watching c w a get coming up today. will it be like father like son? cambodia is long time pod across and then look set to step down and hands power over to his oldest son in a pre determined election plus in the philippines, president bumble marcus,

and or get his dates of the union. has he 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 on my net in a pre ordained election, or you might call it selection in what is essentially a one party a talk proceed. 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 headed mind that the son of current leader 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 needing to 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. i mean, i had a good job, 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 heavy. hate this wide step along so uh, new products 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 like a problem with garbage. 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 of a television station or the own, the, or the most of the television. uh, they can easily span who i close. we pride me use the uh, the ruling body in, in cambodia. this is the reason that a position party, they do not have opportunity a praise and about uh for me to call a platform to the public or to devote to 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 country's liter 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 derek mattress. 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 here that you know, we never retire from politics in cambodia 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 can body and people's party and pull strings from behind the scenes. now this is a single party stage with what has essentially been a performative election with a priority and outcome as your report also pointed out on 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, notice 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, you really know what the pop up the line and has brought 12th to this country? the big question is, how is this well being distributed, you'll see a lot of as a right to use for robberies partially 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 too expensive, and 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 have an exiled and effect. there has been a no 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 of the system kind of relax and a little bit more freedom 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 flagship. people will always be careful what kind of changes they do. otherwise, the whole house of cards my fault together. garrick matters, thank you so much for joining us. of 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 jump struck economy and strengthened the health system. after several years of the coven pandemic, marcos 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 to. well, joining us in the studio is journalist on a 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 differentiates 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 philippine sea. 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 up 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 or for us spaces, strategically positioned to taiwan. so let's look at also where that comes in with the, with china to the president is still trying to maintain trade relations with china . he mentioned in the st. china in his speech. but china is a friend to me, right? it's a trade partner that is 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 as it is our wish that one day

for an 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 philippine economy. and i understand that the money sent home by the philippine workers out 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 them to the 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 his 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 settling 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 step lising, 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 still 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. so in a speech, 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 is mention of an improving economy. left us wondering how power do you 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 of 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 lose the chance. thanks for watching and see you tomorrow, the she toxic judy ideal or feminist icon. the new barbie movie is raising a lot of questions. we take

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