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Nhem Sarom, a newly-elected Candlelight Party commune chief in Kampong Thom’s Chamna Leou commune, was sworn despite a lawsuit against him involving an alleged robbery 20 years ago. Cambodia’s opposition Candlelight Party is once again urging government officials to stop harassing its members after a provincial governor from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party compared Candlelight members recently elected to local offices to a “social plague,”.https://bit.ly/3ur4WTA;Three opposition parties –Cambodian Reform Party, Kampucheaniyum Party, Khmer Will Party – have decided to merge to form a single party before the upcoming July 23, 2023, National Election.https://bit.ly/3yG828N;