A Hun Sen dynasty? Cambodia’s longest-serving Prime Minister poised to extend 38-year rule

Cambodia’s Hun Sen, one of the world’s longest-serving leaders, is heading for another unanimous victory with an expected electoral landslide on July 23, 2023, after he banned the opposition and dismantled much of the free media. As a former Khmer Rouge commander who switched sides towards the end of the brutal regime, leading the country since 1985, Hun Sen and his Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) will be running virtually unopposed as the opposition Candlelight Party was banned from taking part, on a technicality, in May.

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