The Buddhist Liberal Democratic Party ( BLDP ; Khmer : គណបក្សប្រជាធិបតេយ្យសេរីនិយមព្រះពុទ្ធសាសនា ) was a Cambodian political party founded in 1993 by former Cambodian Prime Minister Son Sann . The BLDP was created as a successor to the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF), an anti-communist group also started by Son Sann .
6-601: The BLDP won ten seats in the 1993 Cambodian election , and partnered in the resulting coalition government with the Funcinpec and the Cambodian People's Party . Rivalry between Son Sann and fellow party leader Ieng Mouly led to a split within the party that resulted in its dissolution in 1997. In 1998, Ieng Mouly's faction formed the Buddhist Liberal Party, while Son Sann's supporters created
12-509: Is a one-party dominant state with the Cambodian People's Party in power. Cambodia's legislature is chosen through a national election . The general election is held every five years in the fourth Sunday of July. The Parliament of Cambodia has two chambers . The National Assembly ( រដ្ឋសភា Rôdthâsâphéa ) has 125 members, each elected for a five-year term by proportional representation . The Senate ( ព្រឹទ្ធសភា Prœ̆tthôsâphéa ) has 62 members, mostly indirectly elected. Since
18-686: The Cambodian senate was elected for the first time by the elected commune council officials in January 2006. Three main political parties have dominated Cambodian politics over the last decade: the Cambodian People's Party (CPP), the United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia ( FUNCINPEC ) and, more recently, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP; party banned in 2017). Although
24-498: The CPP dominated the elections held on July 27, 2003, it did not win the two-thirds majority required under the constitution to form a government on its own. A new government was formed on July 15, 2004, after protracted negotiations between the CPP and FUNCINPEC on forming a coalition government . In early 2006 the CPP further consolidated its hold on power by passing an amendment to the constitution through Parliament that will allow for
30-634: The Son Sann Party. Both successor parties failed to capture even a single seat in the 1998 election. The BLDP was a founding body of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats . This article about a Cambodian political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This political party- and liberalism-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Elections in Cambodia Cambodia
36-591: The signing of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords ending decades of civil wars and foreign occupation , and with the final elimination in 1998 of armed insurgency groups inside the country, six national elections have taken place in Cambodia. The first national elections were administered by United Nations Transitional Authority for Cambodia ( UNTAC ) in July 1993, the first commune-level election was held in February 2002 and
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