21-7-2023 (PHNOM PENH) The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) held a massive rally on Friday to mark the end of a three-week campaign for the general election scheduled for July 23. During the rally held at Diamond Island in Phnom Penh, Hun Manet, the CPP’s future Prime Minister candidate, said that if the CPP wins the election, their party-led government will launch the Pentagon Strategy Phase I for 2023-2028 in a journey to achieve their vision of becoming a high-income country by 2050.
Manet, the 45-year-old eldest son of Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen, is a member of the CPP’s Standing Committee.
On the closing day of the election campaign, other parties, including the royalist Funcinpec Party and the Khmer National United Party, also gathered in other parts of the capital city. Eighteen political parties will contest in Sunday’s election for the 125 seats in the National Assembly, the National Election Committee (NEC) said. More than 9.7 million people are eligible to cast their ballots.
In the last general election held five years ago, the CPP won all 125 seats in the National Assembly.