National Rescue Party of Cambodia

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The National Rescue Party of Cambodia ( khm. គណបក្ស ស ង្រ្គោះ ជាតិ, eng. Cambodia National Rescue Party , CNRP; French Parti du sauvetage national du Cambodge , PSNC) was a liberal party in Cambodia . It was the largest opposition party in Cambodia. In the national elections on July 28, 2013, she received 44.5% of the vote, corresponding to 55 out of 123 seats in the National Assembly .

history

The CNRP was created on July 17, 2012 through the merger of the Sam Rainsy Party with the Human Rights Party . As a transition phase, the two parties founded the Alliance Democratic Movement for Change (Mouvement démocratique pour le changement) before the merger in order to coordinate their organizational and programmatic aspects.

After party leader Sam Rainsy was sentenced to two years in prison for defamation, he fled to exile in France in 2016 to avoid the sentence. He resigned in February 2017 because the government was planning a law that would allow parties to be dissolved if their leaders have a criminal record. Kem Sokha (chairman of the Human Rights Party) has led the party since March 2017 . Kem Sokha was arrested in early September 2017. He is accused of high treason. According to a government release, there was evidence of a conspiracy between Kem Sokha, others and foreigners against the Kingdom of Cambodia. On October 3, 2017, Vice President Mu Sochua was informed of her impending arrest and immediately fled to Jakarta.

Dissolution of the party

On October 6, 2017, the government requested the dissolution of the CNRP. In mid-November 2017, the party was banned by the Cambodian Supreme Court. This was justified by the fact that she incited her supporters to demonstrations after the last elections in 2013 in order to bring about the overthrow of the government. Associated with the dissolution is a five-year ban on political activity for 118 of its leading members.

Even before the decision of the Supreme Court, Parliament passed amendments to the electoral law that regulate the allocation of seats of a dissolved party. After the dissolution of the CNRP, its 55 seats were divided accordingly between the FUNCINPEC (41), the Cambodia Nationality Party (CNP, 2) and the Khmer Economic Development Party (KEDP, 1). The League for Democracy Party and the Khmer Anti-Poverty Party , which were entitled to 6 and 5 seats respectively, waived. The 11 seats went to the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP). The new distribution of seats was only valid for around six months, until the elections on July 29, 2018.

New developments

However, the members consider the dissolved party to continue to exist and recognize the imprisoned Kem Sokha as its president. There are, however, tendencies to divide, especially between the former members of the Sam Rainsy party and those of the former human rights party .

On January 29, 2018, Sam Rainsy and other exiled leading members of the disbanded CNRP launched the Cambodia National Rescue Movement . The initiative raised concerns among members of the CNRP, particularly those of the former Human Rights Party, that it could further divide the party and put President Kem Sokha at increased risk.

On Dec. 2, 2018 Sam Rainsy was of an international conference of the party in the USA Acting President (Acting President) elected until the release Sokhas what the Kem Sokha faction, which had boycotted the conference, promptly as unacceptable and statutes unconstitutional was designated.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Rist: Cambodia's opposition in the trap. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 3rd September 2017.
  2. ↑ Manfred Rist: Hun Sen disarms his opponents. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. October 6, 2017.
  3. ^ Supreme Court dissolves largest opposition party. In: Spiegel Online . 16th November 2017.
  4. ↑ Mech Dara, Andrew Nachemson: National Assembly passes election law amendments to allow CNRP seat distribution. In: The Phnom Penh Post . 16th October 2017.
  5. ↑ Ben Sokhean, Niem Chheng: With CNRP gone, minor parties take their National Assembly seats. In: The Phnom Penh Post. November 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ Niem Chheng, Andrew Nachemson: Rainsy officially launches Cambodia National Rescue Movement, lays out five-point plan. In: The Phnom Penh Post. January 30, 2018.
  7. ↑ Kong Meta, Ben Sokhean, Andrew Nachemson: Rainsy, ex-CNRP Officials form 'Rescue Movement'. In: The Phnom Penh Post. 15th January 2018.
  8. ↑ Ben Sokhean: Sam Rainsy named 'acting president' in 'Kem Sokha absence'. In: The Phnom Penh Post. 4th December 2018.