The League for Democracy Party, founded in 2005, put forward candidates in more than half the country’s communes in the 2017 local elections — or 844 communes out of 1,646 — and won around 5 percent of the vote in the 2018 national election. But it is boycotting the 2022 vote, the party said in a press release over the weekend, citing disagreements with the National Election Committee over how to validate votes at polling places.
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As the Commune Election approaches, the group of former Funcinpec senior officials who recently defected to another party have refused to negotiate reconciliation with the current leadership, led by newly-elected president Prince Norodom Chakravuth, saying that “the time is over”.
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Candlelight Party (CP) has finally declared its participation to challenge the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) after months of consideration, citing an unfavourable political environment.
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Amid facing criminal charges over alleged fraudulent thumbprints, Seam Pluk, the leader of unrecognised Cambodia National Heart Party (CNHP) vowed to challenge the legal case and urged the government to withdraw the complaint, a call likely impossible.
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The Khmer Rise Party (KRP) has failed to field its candidates to contest the June commune elections amid its president being behind bar.
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Minister of Interior and a ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) vice-president Sar Kheng has instructed the party’s grassroots officials to focus on providing “justice” to local people and not rely on providing “gifts” to win their support amid the upcoming Commune Election. Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said the 2022 commune council election scheduled for June 5 would mark 20 years in which Cambodia has practiced sub-national reform.
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