Sam Rainsy Party
| Sam Rainsy Party Kanakpak Sam Rainsy |
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| Leader | Sam Rainsy |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
| Ideology | Liberalism Liberal democracy Human Rights |
| International affiliation | Liberal International, Alliance of Democrats, Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats |
| National Assembly |
26 / 123
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| Senate |
2 / 58
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| http://www.samrainsyparty.org/ | |
| Cambodia |
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The Sam Rainsy Party (Kanakpak Sam Rainsy) is a personalist and more or less[vague] liberal party in Cambodia. The party is a member of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats. The name of the leader, Sam Rainsy, is pronounced in Khmer as “Som Raeangsee”.
The Sam Rainsy Party, founded in 1995 as the Khmer National Party and given its current name in 1998, constitutes the official opposition to the ruling Cambodian People's Party. Since the decline of the junior coalition partner, Funcinpec, in the 2008 National Assembly elections, the Sam Rainsy Party is now considered the second largest party in Cambodia.
The Sam Rainsy Party won 15 of the 123 seats in the National Assembly in the 1998 elections, 24 seats in the 2003 elections, and 26 seats in the 2008 elections with 21% of the vote. The SRP won 2 seats in the 2006 Senate elections.
In 2009, it formally allied with the Human Rights Party in the Democratic Movement of Change.
In 2008, party activist Tuot Saron was arrested on a charge of "being an accomplice to unlawful confinement".[1] International human rights groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International described the charges as a politically motivated attempt to intimidate other SRP activists.[1][2] Tuot Saron was released on 26 November, 2010, following a Royal Pardon decree.[3]
[edit] See also
- Liberalism
- Contributions to liberal theory
- Liberalism worldwide
- List of liberal parties
- Liberal democracy
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Cambodia Prisoner of Conscience Tuot Saron". Amnesty International. September 2010. http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA23/006/2010/en/0dc57e6d-e2bb-4188-94b6-f51f2029a6dc/asa230062010en.pdf. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ "Cambodia: Opposition Officials Arrested to Sway Elections". Human Rights Watch. 23 March 2008. http://www.hrw.org/news/2008/03/22/cambodia-opposition-officials-arrested-sway-elections. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ "Tout Saron, SRP activist and Amnesty Int'l "Prisoner of Conscience", finally released from jail". Cambodian Today. 15 December 2010. http://cambodiantoday.blogspot.com/2010/12/tout-saron-srp-activist-and-amnesty.html. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
[edit] External links
- Sam Rainsy Party official site
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