In December 2021, Hun Sen made it known that Hun Manet was to succeed him and the CPP backed his endorsement. The official news of this step-back comes days after the CPP reported a landslide ...

In addition, Hun Sen has long framed the CPP, which has ruled since the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, as the only source of internal unity in Cambodia, citing the country's history of conflict ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday he will step down in August and hand the position to his oldest son, though Asia’s longest-serving leader is expected to continue to wield ...

Cambodia's long-ruling Prime Minister Hun Sen has said he will hand power to his Western-educated son, Hun Manet, 45, this month, after the incumbent Cambodian People's Party (CPP) swept a July ...

The CPP has limited youth appeal. Hun Sen is 61 and has vowed to rule until he is 74. Its youth wing is widely regarded as a political vehicle for Hun Sen's youngest son, Hun Many, 30.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) raises a ballot before voting at a polling station at Takhmua in Kandal province, southeast Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on July ...

Next generation: Hun Manet is scheduled to take over the top job from his father in August. EPA-EFE/Kith Serey In November 2017, the CPP used one of those new processes to dissolve the CNRP and ...

Once Cambodia transitioned to a multiparty political system under U.N. auspices in 1991-93, Prime Minister Hun Sen and the CPP justified their rule on the basis that they had helped overthrow the ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, one of the world's longest-serving leaders, said Wednesday he will resign and hand power to his eldest son, Hun Manet, after almost four decades of hardline rule. The ...

In 2015, when Hun Sen succeeded the deceased former Senate President Chea Sim, the brother-in-law of Sar Kheng, as CPP president, the central committee had a little over 200 members.

In addition, Hun Sen has long framed the CPP, which has ruled since the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, as the only source of internal unity in Cambodia, citing the country’s history of ...