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Ruling families put a well orchestrated 2023 behind them

Further jail terms for dissidents as premiers father Hun Sen forms a coalition

A conversation with Gordon Conochie.

The author of a new book on Cambodia reflects on the long career of the former PM and international attempt to foster democracy in a conflict-torn nation.

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“Voting for the Cambodian People's Party is voting for yourselves,” he told the cheering crowd, promising to return Cambodia's national pride to a “greater level than the glorious Angkor era” of the Khmer Empire, centuries ago.

Prime Minister Hun Sens Cambodian Peoples Party (CPP) is expected to sweep all 125 seats in the country’s national assembly, a repeat of the 2018 elections, which was widely considered a sham.

With his Cambodian Peoples Party virtually guaranteed another landslide victory in Sundays election, its hard to imagine dramatic change on the horizon. But the 70-year-old former communist Khmer Rouge fighter and Asias longest-serving leader says he is ready to hand the premiership to his oldest son, Hun Manet, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who heads the countrys army.

Hun Manet, son of Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaks during the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) final election campaign for the upcoming general

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