Elections

Cambodian human rights and democracy activists in the US have split opinions on the deal cut between the ruling party and the opposition in July, ending a political deadlock that had lasted since the July 2013 elections. ...

The National Assembly will vote on a proposal to make the National Election Committee (NEC) a Constitutional body in early October, opposition lawmakers said on Thursday, honoring part of a deal the ruling CPP struck with the CNRP in July to get the opposition to ...

Following the election of parliamentary leadership last month, the National Assembly’s 13-member permanent committee will meet for the first time Thursday to discuss the agenda for an upcoming plenary session of parliament, scheduled for early next month, according to opposition members of the committee. ...

Negotiators for the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP say they have hammered out several details of a new law governing the National Election Committee (NEC) after talks on Monday and expect to have the draft finished as early as the end of the month. The opposition ...

Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties expect to finalize a draft of the nation’s new election law by the end of the month as the centerpiece of key reforms promised in a July agreement that ended a nearly one-year political crisis, an official said Monday. “The two ...

Civil society groups  campaigned Wednesday to seek support from three former Prime Ministers in order to limit terms for Premiership. Kol Panha, president of Committee for Free and Fair Election in Cambodia (Comfrel), told reporters that he met with Pen Sovann to ask him to ...

An election reform lobby group has called for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party to grant wide-ranging powers to a new election body. The Election Reform Alliance and political parties that did not win seats in last year’s national election said ...

The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) and the opposition CNRP on Sunday called on the National Election Committee (NEC) to suspend its annual update of the voter list until the new bipartisan election committee is created. ...

Candidates to lead key parliamentary commissions in an indication that voting in the legislature may not be tied to a deal to end a year-long political deadlock. Wednesday’s session of the National Assembly, or parliament, saw 31 lawmakers from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) ...

CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha, who was on Tuesday elected National Assembly vice president, told reporters that the opposition party supports recent calls to impose limits on the number of terms a person can serve as prime minister. The issue has been in the local news ...

Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha will meet Friday with visiting Japanese delegation led by Azuma Koshiishi, vice chairman of the Senate of Japan, according to its statement Thursday. ...

The 123 Cambodian Members of Parliament (MPs) from the ruling and opposition parties will vote on Tuesday next week to elect their leadership, Prime Minister Hun Sen, vice president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), said on Monday. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP)’s ...

The opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Friday in his Facebook page that he has received a letter from Mr. Sorya Subedi, the United National Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Cambodia. In the letter to Sam Rainsy, the U.N. envoy said “I am writing ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy told supporters Friday that the goal of his party remains the same: to change the current regime. The president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party has worked to assure his supporters that the party is working for change, following a political deal ...

Civil society organizations held Youth Forum Wednesday on selection of members of National Election Committee (NEC) in Boeung Kork II, Toul Kork district. ...

The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP sat together in the National Assembly for the first time Friday, formalizing the addition of the Assembly’s new commission on anti-corruption and putting forth their plans for what the parties say is a new culture of political cooperation. Longtime rivals ...

 All fifty-five Members of Parliaments (MPs) from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) attended a parliamentary session for the first time on Friday after they had boycotted the parliament for 10 months following a disputed election results in July last year. CNRP’s president Sam Rainsy ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday warned the CNRP that the political deal he cut with the party last month could come undone if its 55 elected lawmakers do not turn up to this morning’s sitting of the National Assembly, the first to be scheduled ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that he could not appoint his children in the cabinet posts even though they were qualified. “I have five children and five children-in-law. All of them have possessed degrees ranging from bachelor’s degrees to doctorate’s degrees, but I cannot ...

Fifty-five opposition politicians were sworn in to the Cambodian parliament Tuesday, ending a yearlong boycott in protest of what they called massive vote rigging by the party of longtime ruler Hun Sen. The swearing-in of Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy and his colleagues took ...

All fifty-five politicians from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) took their oaths as parliamentarians on Tuesday afternoon after boycotting the parliament for ten months against disputed election results in July last year. CNRP president Sam Rainsy led the group to a swearing-in ceremony, which ...

Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni swore in opposition leader Sam Rainsy and 54 others from his party as lawmakers Tuesday, bringing to an end their 10-month boycott of parliament following disputed national elections. The ceremony at the Royal Palace in the capital Phnom Penh came two weeks ...

After nearly a year of boycotting parliamentary sessions, all 55 lawmakers-elect of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party took the oath of office Tuesday. The oath was taken two weeks after the CNRP and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to ...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy said Saturday that he ranged Interior Minister Sar Kheng to discuss issues which haven’t been agreed by the two parties’ working groups, and autonomy of National Election’s affairs. “We have further discussion between the two parties’ top ...