Premier Hun Sen’s CPP loses more parliamentary seats but still controls govt’ and assembly for 5 more years

Phnom Penh: Long-ruling Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won the Sunday election leading him and CPP to still occupy the royal government and both lower and upper assemblies for the upcoming five-year mandate.

Although Prime Minister Hun Sen and his senior CPP officials have been reported that they suffer quite a lot when their CCP lost more than 20 parliamentary seats to the opponent – Mr. Sam Rainsy’s Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) – on the Sunday election, CPP is still able to head the royal government, national assembly and senate.

According to preliminary result claimed by Minister of Information and government spokesperson Khieu Kanharith, CPP gets 68 seats and CNRP gets 55 seats out of the 123 parliamentary seats after the election.

Before mid 2006, a two-thirds majority of the parliament was required to form a new government but after that both Sam Rainsy and Hun Sen agreed to have the constitutional amendment that allows a political party to be able to form a government alone if it wins the 50% of parliamentary seats plus one.

In 2008, CPP won 90 seats out of 123 while Sam Rainsy Party of Mr. Sam Rainsy got 26 seats and Human Rights Party of Mr. Kem Sokha got 3 seats. But this year election Sam Rainsy Party and Human Rights Party join together to establish a new party known as CNRP and reaches up to 58 seats causing CPP to lose up 22 seats.

Still not yet known which party that CPP will choose to be as its partner in the new government since there is no report about the 6 other parties, even the royalist FUNCINPEC party, gain any seat. By Vathey/Cambodia News

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