PHNOM PENH, Oct 25 (NNN-AKP) – The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), signed a Cooperation and Coalition Agreement with 27 other political parties today.
CPP President, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, inked the historic deal with representatives of those parties at a ceremony held at the CPP’s headquarters in Phnom Penh.
Speaking at the event, Hun Sen said, the alliance aimed to maintain the country’s hard-earned peace and political stability, the most important prerequisite for socio-economic development.
“The coalition is to strengthen national unification and to mobilise national patriots to maintain peace and political stability for the country’s long-term development and prosperity,” he said.
Hun Sen added that, the alliance parties have vowed to protect independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, constitution and monarchy, as well as, to enhance multi-party democracy, human rights, the rule of law and social justice.
He said, the alliance parties will work together on an equal footing with mutual respect, regardless of big or small parties.
The move came, in response to the recent formation of an opposition coalition – the Alliance Towards the Future, which comprises four opposition parties, namely the Candlelight Party, Khmer Will Party, Grassroots Democratic Party and Cambodia Reform Party.
The CPP swept 120 of the 125 National Assembly seats, while the royalist Funcinpec Party secured five seats in a general election on July 23.
