Share Ruling CPP celebrates 70th anniversary Mon, 28 June 2021 The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) leaders outlined their views on the history of struggle and achievements under the CPP-led government over the past 42 years, saying the party will continue to maintain the Kingdom’s independence, peace, freedom, democracy, neutrality and social progress. They made the remarks on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the party – June 28, 1951. The CPP was originally known as the Khmer Revolutionary People’s Party, with its origins in the resistance movement that was formed by Cambodian people to fight against the colonialist regime in order to achieve national independence, CPP president and Prime Minister Hun Sen recounted.