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With mandate won, Cambodia’s ruling party now faces huge expectations to deliver
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Cambodian National Election Committee officials emptying a ballot box at a polling station in Phnom Penh on July 23.
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PHNOM PENH - Despite the exclusion of Cambodia’s strongest opposition party from Sunday’s general election, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) failed to make a clean sweep of all 125 National Assembly seats as it did in 2018.
Instead, the royalist Funcinpec Party bagged a surprising five seats, according to preliminary results disclosed on Monday. This marks the return of a multi-party Lower House in Cambodia after a five-year drought.
