Hun Sen and the Cambodian People’s Party are certain to easily top the polls, holding all the advantages of incumbency. the sole competition for the governing party would be groups aligned with it, or small, obscure parties without a national presence. The Candlelight Party and another unidentified party were both rejected for failing to provide documents supporting their applications, it said.Ībout 9.7 million Cambodians are registered to vote in the July 23 elections for the 125 members of the National Assembly. The election committee said in a statement that 18 of the 20 parties that applied for registration in this year’s elections were approved, including the Cambodian People’s Party. Western nations declared the election was neither free nor fair, and imposed mild economic sanctions in response. The party’s disbanding enabled the governing party to win all the seats in the National Assembly. But it was dissolved just months ahead of the polls by a controversial court ruling that said it had plotted the illegal overthrow of the government. The Candlelight Party is the unofficial successor to the Cambodia National Rescue Party, which threatened to present a serious challenge to Hun Sen’s party in the 2018 elections. His eldest son, army chief Hun Manet, is widely expected to replace his father as prime minister after the polls. Hun Sen, 70, an authoritarian ruler in a nominally democratic state, has held his position for 38 years. The governing party has held an iron grip on power for decades and controls almost every lever of government. He told The Associated Press that by law, the party has five days to file a complaint after being disqualified, and he hopes the Constitutional Council will render a judgment based on the law.Ĭambodian courts are widely considered to be under the influence of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government and his Cambodian People’s Party. Kimsour Phirith said when the party applied to contest this year’s elections, the election commission asked for its original registration papers issued by the Interior Ministry, but they had been taken in a 2017 police raid on the headquarters of its predecessor, the Cambodia National Rescue Party. In those polls, the Cambodian People’s Party won 74.3% of the votes and the Candlelight Party about 22.3%. He pointed out that the party has been operating legally and participated in last year’s local elections without the issue being raised. Kimsour Phirith, a spokesperson for the Candlelight Party, said it will file an official complaint asking the council to judge the election commission’s ruling. The ruling leaves the party only a very slim chance of taking part in the elections by filing a successful appeal to the Constitutional Council. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Cambodia’s National Election Committee refused on Monday to register the opposition Candlelight Party, the sole credible challenger to the governing Cambodian People’s Party, for July elections, saying it had failed to provide necessary documents. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.Its opponents derisively referred to it as the Don’t Say Gay Bill. Governor DeSantis and other Republican lawmakers referred to it as a parents rights bill. Last year, the State Of Florida introduced a bill that prohibited public school teachers from discussing sexual orientation with children in Kindergarten through third grade. Now, the complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief literally opens with a pull quote that comes from a DeSantis interview over the weekend: “This all started, of course, with our parents’ rights bill.” Let’s give a little backstory here for those of you that may be out of the loop and not get why that's a pretty big roast, at least in legal terms. Walt Disney World filed an amended version of its lawsuit in order to add quotes from the Governor himself. The battle between Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been heating up for months, and now, it’s starting to get petty too. CinemaBlend Disney Just Amended Its Lawsuit To Troll Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
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