Cambodia To Hold Parliamentary Elections On Sunday

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd July, 2023) Cambodians will go to the polls on Sunday to elect 125 members of the National Assembly, the lower house of the country's parliament.

With 18 parties registered to contest the election, including incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP), the vote is expected to be a repeat of the 2018 elections, in which the CPP won all seats in the National Assembly. Cambodia's last remaining opposition party, the Candlelight Party, was barred from the election by the Constitutional Council in May on a registration technicality.�

Sen, who is also running for prime minister, has held the position in Cambodia and its predecessor states since 1985 and is likely to remain the country's ruler for another five years.