Cambodia’s Ruling Party to Sweep Senate in Election Without Opposition

On Feb. 25, seven commune councilors are going to vote in Cambodia’s Senate election, a nationwide political contest few citizens know or care much about. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) won a majority of commune seats here in June’s local elections.  But that was then, and this is now: The CNRP, the major opposition party, no longer exists because the nation’s top court dissolved it in November, and there is little doubt that the commune councilors will vote for the...

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