Shift in CNRP’s political strategy to win elections
The Cambodian National Rescue Party is making a strategic shift in its bid to win the next election: focusing less on traditional hot-button issues like government corruption and territorial disputes, and instead offering voters a series of concrete new policy initiatives. … This required clear and costed policies, three of which he had personally been tasked with formulating over the past three years, with one of the core targets being improvement to agricultural output and revenue distribution. There would also be entrenched powers to negotiate, with Chhay identifying the monopoly the Federation of Cambodian Rice Millers holds on purchasing and setting prices for paddy as something that must be broken to drive higher prices for producers. … The CNRP is proposing a raft of taxes, including a $70 per hectare tax on economic land concessions expected to generate some $200 million and raising the tax to 50 per cent of net profit on the more than 50 casinos in Cambodia in hope of bringing in about $400 million. …
