Cambodian People's Party
Cambodian People's Party | |
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Party leader | Hun Sen |
founding | 1981 |
Alignment |
Populism authoritarianism |
Website | cpp.org.kh |
The Cambodian People's Party (in Khmer គណបក្សប្រជាជន កម្ពុជា , Kanakpak Pracheachon Kâmpuchéa or KPK; English Cambodian People's Party or CPP; French Parti populaire cambodgia or PPC) is a political party in Cambodia .
It emerged in 1991 from the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party after it had officially abandoned its Marxist-Leninist ideology. It has led the government uninterruptedly since 1981 and, even after the introduction of a multi-party system in 1991, has remained a dominant party. From 1993 to 2013 she formed a government coalition with the royalist FUNCINPEC . Since then it has been the sole government. The party chairman has been Hun Sen , who is also prime minister, since the death of Chea Sim in 2015 .
Most of the functionaries in the state administration belong to the party. Party membership is rewarded with privileges, but membership in opposition parties can have negative consequences. In particular, the party can rely on local leaders in rural areas and an extensive network of patronage .
history
The Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party ( French Parti révolutionnaire du peuple du Kampuchea under the acronym PRPK) was the sole ruling party in Cambodia from 1979 to 1991 . During the peace and reconstruction measures supported by the UN , it renamed itself the Cambodian People's Party .
The party came to power after the Vietnamese invasion in 1979, as a result of which the dictatorial regime of the Khmer Rouge was overthrown and the People's Republic of Kâmpŭchea was installed. She was supported by Vietnamese troops. In the 1980s she had to deal with the intra-Cambodian resistance, which resulted from the resurgent Khmer Rouge and - to a lesser extent - from the armed and political resistance of the royalist FUNCINPEC and the republican National Khmer People's Liberation Front ( Front populaire pour la libération nationale des Khmers or FPLNK). Despite very different ideologies , all three resistance movements mainly appealed to the strong national sentiment of the Khmer ethnic group by accusing the government of being just a puppet of the Vietnamese.
ideology
The KPK began as a purely Marxist-Leninist movement, but in the mid-1980s, in the course of a reform process, it turned more and more to market economy ideas and anchored them in Cambodian society by allowing private property again.
Many KPK officials used to be members of the Khmer Rouge who had to flee to Vietnam before its murderous regime. Prominent party leaders such as Heng Samrin and Hun Sen were among the Khmer Rouge cadres near the Cambodian-Vietnamese border and took part in the Vietnamese invasion.
In its 2008 party program, the party committed itself to free, multi-party democracy, the principles of “good governance” , economic development and job creation. She wants to expand the private sector and encourage foreign investment. Their actual government practice, however, is characterized by widespread corruption and embezzlement.
literature
- Duncan McCargo : Cambodia. Getting away with Authoritarianism? In: Journal of Democracy , Volume 16, No. 4, 2005, pp. 98-112.
- Carlyle A. Thayer: Cambodia. The Cambodian People's Party Consolidates Power. In: Southeast Asian Affairs 2009. ISEAS Publications, Singapore 2009, pp. 85-101.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Wolfgang Sachsenröder: The Contemporary Political Landscape in Cambodia. In: Cambodia. Progress and Challenges Since 1991. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 2012, pp. 233-236
- ^ Caroline Hughes: Cambodia in 2008. Consolidation in the Midst of Crisis. In: Asian Survey , Volume 49, No. 1, pp. 206-212.