Youth Representatives Debate Party Policies

PHNOM PENH – Youth representatives from six political parties running in the upcoming elections joined an International Republican Institute-organized debate over the weekend to show their respective parties’ policies. The candidates came from Funcinpec, the Cambodian Nationality Party, the League for Democracy Party, the Anti-Poverty Party, the Cambodian People’s Party and the Cambodia National Rescue Party. Jessica Keegan, acting director of IRI, said the debates helped provide information for the July 28 election. “Citizens need access to information to get different views from different people so that they can make informed decisions on Election Day,” she said. Each candidate was given a chance to describe the party’s platforms and convince the audience why a vote for them would matter. …

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