Cambodia may use Thai political party law as its model
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed his support to the initiative to amend the law on political parties that was adopted in late 1990s.
The law on political party of Cambodia was adopted on Oct. 28, 1997, during the 8th session of the first legislature of National Assembly. This law was composed of 11 chapters and 45 articles, but PM Hun Sen said it should amend.
Speaking at a graduation ceremony of the National University of Management held here yesterday, PM Hun Sen said this law should update and urged the legal experts of the Office of the Council of Ministers to work on.
PM Hun Sen suggested them to consider Thai political party law as a model.
In Thailand, when the leader of a political party committed any serious offence, that political party must be dissolved, while the political rights of its steering committee members are suspended for five years, he underlined.
Currently, there are so many political parties registered at the Ministry of Interior, but some of them have only the president and vice presidents, he added.
Under the existing Cambodian political party law, all the political parties need to collect their supporters’ fingerprints, but most of them cannot find enough, therefore we should check this point in order to make their request to run a political party null and void for a three- or six-month period, he said.
According to the Ministry of Interior's record last year, there were a total of 67 political parties in Cambodia, of which 44 have been officially registered.