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GDP files petition over Boeng Tamouk lake reclamation
The Grassroots Democratic Party yesterday submitted a petition to National Assembly President Heng Samrin to seek clarification from the government over the partial reclamation of Boeng Tamouk lake. In 2016, the government issued a sub-decree designating the 3,239-hectare Boeng Tamouk lake in Phnom Penh as ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50613256/gdp-files-petition-over-boeng-tamouk-lake-reclamation/
PM welcomes GDP to forum
After hosting 16 of the Kingdom’s 20 registered parties at the inaugural meeting of the Consultation Forum, two additional parties earlier this week announced their intention to join the group but pushed back against the idea of opposition leaders receiving salaries. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-welcomes-gdp-forum
Government to form on Sept 6, says PM
After paying a courtesy call on the King and visiting the chairman of the Constitutional Council, caretaker prime minister Hun Sen on Wednesday rescheduled the date on which a new National Assembly will be formed. The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) president also directed his ire ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-form-sept-6-says-pm
CNRP boycott call slammed by opposition party leader
The president of the Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) on Wednesday slammed the leadership of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) for handing the 125-seat National Assembly to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party with its boycott calls. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-boycott-call-slammed-opposition-party-leader
Voting goes on quietly in Takeo
The election in Takeo province’s 1,585 polling stations went smoothly on Sunday, though it was relatively quiet compared to the 2013 national polls and the 2017 commune council elections, officials from the provincial election committee (PEC) and participating political parties said. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voting-goes-quietly-takeo
GDP stays in election race
The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) has turned back from its earlier warning that it could withdraw from participating in the July 29 national elections, it announced on Sunday. The party said it made the decision as the atmosphere of resistance from the Kingdom’s authorities had ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gdp-stays-election-race
Fledgling campaigns accuse authorities of discrimination, harassment
As Sunday dawned and political parties entered the ninth day of the three-week campaign period in preparation for the July 29 national elections, claims of threats and intimidation seem to be the order of the day. But the National Election Committee (NEC), which oversees the ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fledgling-campaigns-accuse-authorities-discrimination-harassment
GDP pledges to have Kem Sokha released
The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) held its first major rally of the campaign period in the capital on Tuesday while pushing a platform that included a promise to eliminate treason charges from the Criminal Code. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gdp-pledges-have-kem-sokha-released
Three parties promise to free Sokha, other ‘prisoners of conscience’
The campaign season is now underway in the Kingdom and at least three political parties have included in their platform promises to release the “political prisoners” of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) should they win the July 29 polls. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-parties-promise-free-sokha-other-prisoners-conscience
GDP backs farmer candidates
The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) has included 100 farmers as parliamentary candidates in its list of 275 to compete in the July 29 elections. It says the move is a step to connect politicians with the people if they are elected. ...
Meas Sokchea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gdp-backs-farmer-candidates
Grassroots party lays out policy platform
The Grassroots Democratic Party has created a 125-point policy document outlining its priorities were it to be elected to office in the July national elections. The fledgling party has said that it will contest the elections, though any further deterioration in the country’s current political ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grassroots-party-lays-out-policy-platform
‘Commune election law debate should be wider’
Election watchdogs and a newly-formed opposition party yesterday called for a more inclusive discussion about reforms of commune council election laws. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16634/---commune-election-law-debate-should-be-wider---/
Two new parties join the fray
Two new political parties – the Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) and Khmer Solidarity Party (KSP) – submitted applications for party registration to the Ministry of Interior yesterday. ...
Va Sonyka and Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14011/two-new-parties-join-the-fray/
