Khmer Power Party Explained

Khmer Power Party
Native Name:Central Khmer: គណបក្សអំណាចខ្មែរ
Colorcode:
  1. 006400
President:Soung Sophorn
Foundation:18 March 2010
Successor:Khmer Reform Party[1] [2]
Ideology:Khmer ultranationalism
Anti-communism
Republicanism
Position:Far-right
Slogan:"Nation, Freedom, Hero"
Headquarters:244 St. 156, Sangkat Teuk L'ak II, Khan Tuol Kouk, Phnom Penh
Flag:Flag of the Khmer Republic.svg
Colors: Green
Website:http://kppp.org
Country:Cambodia

The Khmer Power Party (KPP; Central Khmer: គណបក្សអំណាចខ្មែរ) is a Cambodian pro-American political party founded on 18 March 2010 by Cambodian-American Sourn Serey Ratha.[3] It did not officially register until March 2015.[4] The party is in favor of abolishing the monarchy, and establish a second Khmer Republic government.[5]

Serey Ratha was charged and put in jail in August 2016 for criticizing the government’s deployment of troops to the Laos border.[6] He then received a royal pardon a year later[7] But Sophorn refused to restore him as president[8] but will give him a title of honorary president instead. Serey Ratha than threatened to file a complaint against Sophorn for allegedly forging public documents to secure the title of party president.[9] Serey Ratha has also asked the Interior Minister to inspect a letter dated September 2017 allegedly forged by Sophorn to appoint himself as president without consent. Later both of them establish a new Party, Serey Ratha form Khmer Reform Party whiled Sophorn form Khmer Win Party. Both of them claim as the Successor of Khmer Power Party.

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Notes and References

  1. Khmer Times. Ex-KPP president to form new party before 2022. 22 March 2019 . 7 May 2019.
  2. https://m.facebook.com/653569944836820/posts/983450968515381?s=100009938764272&v=i&sfns=mo official Facebook post about name changing in the party's official Facebook page
  3. Web site: About . 2016-03-02 . 2016-09-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160915073829/http://kppp.org/index.php/en/about . dead .
  4. News: KPPM gets green light for party despite jail sentence . . 7 March 2015 . 2 March 2016.
  5. Web site: ABOUT: THE FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF CAMBODIA WILL BE THE SECOND KHMER REPUBLIC (SKR) . kppp.org . 10 September 2016 . The Democratic Liberal Republic regime grants people to live in a free and open society where they can choose their own leader..
  6. Web site: KPP appoints Sophorn to replace president.
  7. Khmer Times . Former KPP leader pardoned by King . 23 August 2018 . 11 May 2019.
  8. Khmer Times . KPP refuses to reinstate president . 28 August 2018 . 16 May 2019.
  9. Khmer Times . KPP infighting intensifies . 29 August 2018 . 16 May 2019.