ASEAN Beat | Politics | Southeast Asia This Sunday’s national election will function as a prelude to the expected handover of power from Prime Minister Hun Sen to his eldest son. Advertisement Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen is ramping up the pressure on the country’s beleaguered opposition forces as the country moves to a national election on Sunday, despite … Read more
The Debate | Opinion Without any meaningful opposition alternative to Hun Sen’s CPP, expect a large number of spoiled and empty ballots on July 23. Hun Manet, center right, son of Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, also army chief, participates together with his wife, Pich Chanmony, center left, in the election campaign of Cambodian People’s Party, in … Read more
ASEAN Beat | Politics | Southeast Asia The amendment is intended to prevent a boycott of the July 23 election, which is intended to initiate a handover of power from Prime Minister Hun Sen to his son. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurates a judicial school at the Ministry of Justice in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 26, 2023. Credit: … Read more
Advertisement On June 13, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, in one of his now-daily streams of consciousness that dictate government policy, announced that he wants to amend existing election laws so that anyone who doesn’t vote in July’s general election will never be able to stand as a candidate in any future ballot. Like much … Read more
Advertisement In 2017, it was a tragedy when the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was forcibly dissolved on the laughably fictitious claim that it was plotting a coup. Had it not been expunged, the CNRP stood a good chance of winning the following year’s general election. This month, it was the turn of farce (to … Read more
Advertisement Yesterday, Cambodia’s Constitutional Council confirmed that the country’s largest opposition party will not be able to participate in national elections in July, all but ensuring another clean sweep by Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). Im Chhun Lim, the president of the Constitutional Council, announced that the Candlelight Party (CLP) … Read more
Advertisement Two months before national elections are due to be held, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged foreign nations to refrain from commenting about the state of his country in the lead-up to the poll, amid further allegations of attempts to oust his government. Those plots include the arrest this week of three farmers, … Read more
Advertisement A week after Cambodian authorities barred the country’s main opposition party from taking part in national elections in July, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen again criticized Western diplomats and accused them of supporting detained opposition leader Kem Sokha. The former leader of the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has been ensnared in politically … Read more
Advertisement Twenty political parties have registered for Cambodia’s parliamentary election in July, the country’s National Election Committee (NEC) announced yesterday, though nine of them have not yet been approved, including the one opposition party of any significance. According to The Associated Press, the nine outstanding applications are still under review, including that of the Candlelight … Read more
Advertisement Southeast Asia’s leaders generally do not go gentle into that good night, as a poet once wrote. At 97 years old, Mahathir Mohammad hasn’t lost any of his enthusiasm for racism and political bumbling, although it could also be said that he had few mental faculties to lose in old age. Singapore’s Lee Kuan … Read more