New parties on horizon
Political analyst Kem Ley plans to create a diverse set of independent political parties in the new year, tackling what he says is an autocratic “disease” infecting both the ruling party and the opposition. Using his newly founded “social network” Khmer for Khmer as a springboard, Ley will register the parties at the communal, district and provincial levels of government, as well as create an Islamic party and an ethnic minority party, he told the Post last week. The idea is to start with five parties in different provinces and then potentially expand. Ley’s intention, he said, is for the new entities to act as models of pluralistic “intra-party democracy” at the grassroots level. …
David Boyle and Bennett Murray
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/new-parties-horizon
