"We are not masters of the people, but we are faithful servants for the people," Mr. Hun Sen said during a ceremony to hand over certificates in Phnom Penh.
However, the Cambodian People's Party won 70 percent of seats chiefs in the commune council election on 4 June, the party was also acknowledged that it had lost hundreds of communes who had previously managed by voters fed up with bad behavior, according to the Prime Minister's comments Marie.
Hun Sen said, "People's dissatisfaction through our behavior." "Please ask your wife and children," he added.
The prime minister said that a "small number" high-ranking officer protected his wife and children from legal action in cases they did not obey.
Mr. Hun Sen gave an example to Duong Ouk Chhen, a son of a general, of the Immigration Department of the Ministry of Interior who was arrested in April 2015 following a dispute with another wealthy young businessman in a tattoo shop in Phnom Penh.
The prime minister said that he called Deng Chay's father, Okeang Doung Nabe, and ordered him to hand over his son to the police, otherwise lose his position in the government. Duong Nge complied, and Duong Chhay practiced his sentence in prison and became a philanthropist after being released.
"If we do not penalize justice between wrongdoers but the situation is different," Mr. Hun Sen asked. "We do not have to punish children," he said.
The Prime Minister's family was also charged with wrongdoing in the past .Neem Sopha, a nephew of Prime Minister, was released in 2004 for unintentional homicide after shooting a passenger during an accident in 2003. At that time, Mr. Hun Sen suggested that his nephew deserve to be imprisoned.
Another nephew, Htoo Too, denied the report of the Australian newspaper The Age, which links him to international drug trafficking and money laundering.
And recently, in March, gamblers suggested that Hun Sen's brother-in-law's chest at the home was reopened.
Earlier this month, police said that the son of a senior official at the Ministry of Interior would not face charges after shooting a gun to threaten another vehicle because his father had high rank.
Mr. Hun Sen also urged institutional reforms, saying that lower-level officials had to stop reporting false stories to the top.
"If we do not reflect the truth from the bottom, can we know it," he said.
Kem Sokha, president of the CNRP, praised Hun Sen's rhetoric in meeting with supporters in Tbong Khmum, saying that if it was to serve itself better.
"We are politicians ... must follow the people pointing at us not to do our part," he said, adding that the CNRP wanted "all civilian staff to be a tool of the political party, serving people and serving the country without prejudice" based on political tendencies.
The prime minister has called for similar reforms after the 2013 election in a six-hour speech, but critics have suggested that the change since now is a "pure" change.
Markus Karbaum, a German political scientist focusing on Cambodia, said that the speech demonstrates the prime minister's anxiety for reform, but needs to be followed by the lower officials.
He wrote in an email that "the majority raises the question that if the most powerful man in the country to push for the change did what anyone who can make a change." He continued, "The answer is impenetrable crisis or severe external factors that cause the majority of government officials acknowledge that no longer can do today Forest. "I do not believe that the reshuffle of the CNRP is sufficient in pushing for a big change in the minds of most government officials." (Additional reporting by Ben Sokhean)
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