The ruling party of Cambodia’s longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen claimed a landslide victory in Sunday’s general election. Know more:
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, right, of the Cambodian People’s Party shows off his inked finger, standing next to his wife Bun Rany, left, after voting a ballot at a polling station in Takhmua in Kandal province, southeast Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Sunday, July 23, 2023.
He held his ballot high for all to see, before depositing it into the silver metal box and leaving the station, pausing to take selfies and shake hands with supporters outside. “I don’t think anyone expects Hun Sen to sort of disappear once Hun Manet is prime minister,” said Astrid Norén-Nilsson, a Cambodia expert at Sweden’s Lund University. “I think they will probably be working closely together and I don’t think that there is a big difference in their political outlook, including foreign policy.”
“Without stability we cannot talk about education, we cannot talk about development,” the 59-year-old said without saying who he voted for. His party’s stranglehold on power faltered in 2013 elections, in which the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party won 44 percent of the popular vote to CPP’s 48 percent. Hun Sen responded by going after leaders of the opposition, primarily through sympathetic courts, which eventually dissolved the party after local elections in 2017 when it again fared well.
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