Candlelight Party

Prime Minister Hun Sen claims that he received a promise from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim that Rainsy would “never be allowed to step on Malaysian soil.”

The Candlelight Party has been barred for failing to submit its original party registration document from 1998.

Since the 1990s, accusations of foreign interference have occupied a privileged position in the Cambodian leader's rhetorical arsenal.

The National Election Committee has refused to accept the Candlelight Party's election registration, opening the way to another clean sweep by PM Hun Sen's CPP.

By tangling up the country’s one significant opposition party in tailor-made bureaucracy, the long-ruling leader is hoping to replicate the one-horse race of 2018.

However, nine parties' applications have yet to be approved, including the Candlelight Party, the only one with any chance of challenging Prime Minister Hun Sen's CPP.

Elections perform functions beyond simply designating a winner, and in that sense Cambodia’s polls will send important signals.

For a party living under the constant fear of crackdown or dissolution, it might be wise to downplay its chances at the July poll.

Censorship and self-censorship are less repressive than being forced to express and affirm a regime's lies.

Son Chhay of the Candlelight Party has been ordered to pay $750,000 for questioning the fairness of this year's commune election.

Unity offers the only hope for defeating Prime Minister Hun Sen – but cynicism and egotism stand in the way.