Democratization in Cambodia in retreat following violent 2013
Democracy is in retreat since July’s national election as the ruling CPP has increasingly used armed forces to protect its grip on power and stubbornly refused to reform state institutions, the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) said in a new report released Tuesday. “Although parliamentary elections were held in July 2013 and brought a strengthening of citizen engagement in politics, Cambodia’s democracy remained in a fragile state,” Comfrel said in its latest annual report, Democracy, Elections and Reform in Cambodia. …
Lauren Crothers
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