Chea Mony, president of the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia (FTUWKC), has announced he will resign from his position at the end of his current term and will not stand as a candidate for union elections scheduled for June 27. Chea Mony said Sunday that he was resigning due to health reasons and also because it could benefit the FTUWKC to have a change in leadership. “I want the union to be progressive,” he said. “If we want our country to be progressive we must have a change of leader.”