List of political parties in Cambodia
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A political party
is a political
organization subscribing to a certain ideology
or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in election
s.
Cambodia
is a one party dominant state with the Cambodian People's Party
in power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.
Political party
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is a political
Politics
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organization subscribing to a certain ideology
Ideology
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or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in election
Election
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Cambodia
Cambodia
Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
is a one party dominant state with the Cambodian People's Party
Cambodian People's Party
The Cambodian People's Party is the current ruling party of Cambodia.This party was formerly known as Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party...
in power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.
Major parties
- Cambodian People's PartyCambodian People's PartyThe Cambodian People's Party is the current ruling party of Cambodia.This party was formerly known as Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party...
- Human Rights PartyHuman Rights Party (Cambodia)The Human Rights Party is a Cambodian political party founded on 22 July 2007 led by Kem Sokha. Critics allege that its foundation is meant to weaken opposition parties and is driven by the ruling party...
- Sam Rainsy PartySam Rainsy PartyThe Sam Rainsy Party is a personalist and more or less liberal party in Cambodia. The party is a member of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats...
- Norodom Ranarridh Party
- FuncinpecFuncinpecFUNCINPEC is a royalist political party in Cambodia. Before the 2008 election, FUNCINPEC and the Cambodian People's Party formed a coalition government, although FUNCINPEC's significance has decreased steadily since 1998, when it had an equal relationship with the CPP in the coalition.FUNCINPEC is...
- League for Democracy PartyLeague for Democracy PartyThe League for Democracy Party is a Cambodian political party that was established in March 2006. Its leader is president Khem Veasna.-Political ideologies:...
- Sangkum Jatiniyum Front Party (former Alliance of the National Community coalition lead by the Khmer Unity PartyKhmer Unity PartyThe Alliance of the National Community that represented four parties had all of its four parties merge together and be transformed into a political party called the Sangkum Jatiniyum Front Party and one of them is the Khmer Unity Party.The Khmer Unity Party, is an Cambodian opposition party...
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Parliamentary parties
- Cambodian People's PartyCambodian People's PartyThe Cambodian People's Party is the current ruling party of Cambodia.This party was formerly known as Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party...
(Kanakpak Pracheachon Kâmpuchêa, Hun Sen) - FuncinpecFuncinpecFUNCINPEC is a royalist political party in Cambodia. Before the 2008 election, FUNCINPEC and the Cambodian People's Party formed a coalition government, although FUNCINPEC's significance has decreased steadily since 1998, when it had an equal relationship with the CPP in the coalition.FUNCINPEC is...
(United National Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful and Cooperative Cambodia) - Sam Rainsy PartySam Rainsy PartyThe Sam Rainsy Party is a personalist and more or less liberal party in Cambodia. The party is a member of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats...
(KanakPak Sam Rainsy, Sam Rainsy)
Minor parties
- Cambodian National Sustaining PartyCambodian National Sustaining PartyThe Cambodian National Sustaining Party was created by its president Pen Sovann in January 1998 21st and held its first party congress.-Political Ideology:This political party’s ideology is a combination of several ideas...
- Cambodian Democratic Society PartyCambodian Democratic Society PartyOn December 20, 2008 nine days before the candidate registration deadline ended the DSP was created by its leader president Thorng Sovannara, who says it was a breakaway faction of the Khmer National Party that he changed into a political party....
- Hang Dara Democratic Movement PartyHang Dara Democratic Movement PartyThe Hang Dara Democratic Movement Party is a Cambodian political party whose leader was Hang Dara. It was created in May 2002.-Political ideologies:...
- Khmer Anti-Poverty PartyKhmer Anti-Poverty PartyThe Khmer Anti-Poverty Party is a Cambodian political party founded in September 2007. Its leader is Cambodian-American Daran Kravanh.-Political ideology:...
- Khmer Democratic PartyKhmer Democratic PartyThe Khmer Democratic Party is a Cambodian third political party-Political ideology:This political party supports the belief that while illegal immigrants and even those ‘’from Vietnam’’ who ‘’take jobs from Cambodians’’ are destructive to Cambodia...
- Khmer Front PartyKhmer Front PartyThe leader called Sisowath Thomico had instead of creating a political party chose to create on Friday 28 July 2006 what was called the "Sampoan Sangkum Cheat Niyum ." This was because when gathering some of the parties like the Khmer Unity Party and Angkor Emipre Party etc Thomico said ""We...
- Khmer Improvement PartyKhmer Improvement Party-Political Ideology:Its ideology is primarily left-wing as explained by Liv Ann the Khmer Improvement Party will create democracy by choosing to “enforce decentralization of political power in the rural areas.” It does also has a kind of combination of left and right wing ideology where it tries to...
- Khmer Loves Khmer PartyKhmer Loves Khmer PartyKhmer Loves Khmer is a Cambodian Political Party founded in 2008. It believes in democracy and ideas like in its slogan "Unity, Liberty and Justice"...
- Khmer National Party of CambodiaKhmer National Party of CambodiaThis type of political party was constructed in June 2004 and sees itself as a "true opposition party." Its leader is a Cambodian-American called Sum Sitha which is its party chairman.-Political Ideology:...
- Khmer Neutral PartyKhmer Neutral Party-Political ideology:It believes in promoting a “pluralistic political system” which is a centrist political position where there’s democracy for people to express their own political views equally...
- Khmer Republican PartyKhmer Republican PartyThis is a political party recently created on March 11th 2006 and competed in the July 27th 2008 elections with their leader Lon Rith as their candidate-Ideology:...
- Rice Party
- Indra Buddra City Party
- Nationalist Khmer Party
- Society of Justice PartySociety of Justice PartySociety of Justice Party is a political party in Cambodia, whose president is Ban Sophal.-Political Ideology:Its political ideology combines various ideas from “democracy” to others...
- Union of Cambodian DemocratsUnion of Cambodian DemocratsThe Union of Cambodian Democrats was a political alliance in Cambodia, which was formed by three political parties, one of them being the Khmer Nation Party of Sam Rainsy, Prince Norodom Ranariddh was involved as well. These three political parties called their umbrella group the "Union of...
- United People of CambodiaUnited People of CambodiaThe United People of Cambodia was a political party created by its leader president, Sarath Oeurn, in August 2003. Oeurn lives in America and only visits Cambodia and his party once a year in July...
Older parties
- Democratic PartyDemocratic Party (Cambodia)The Cambodian Democratic Party was a left-leaning, pro-independence political party formed in 1946 by Prince Sisowath Yuthevong, who had previously been a member of the French Section of the Workers' International....
- Pracheachollana (People's Movement)
- Khmer IssarakKhmer IssarakThe Khmer Issarak was an anti-French, Khmer nationalist political movement formed in 1945 with the backing of the government of Thailand. It sought to expel the French colonial authorities from Cambodia, and establish an independent Khmer state....
(Khmer Independence) - Kanak Sereipheap (Liberal Party)
- Progressive Democrats
- PracheachonPracheachonThe Krom Pracheachon , often referred to simply as Pracheachon, was a Cambodian political party that contested in parliamentary elections in 1955, 1958 and 1972....
(People's Association) - Sangkum Reastr Niyum (Popular Socialist Community)