Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Royalist parties to merge this month: official

Nhiek Bun Chhay (L) and You Hockry (Photo: Sovannara, RFI)
Tuesday, 06 April 2010
By Tep Nimol
The Phnom Penh Post

THE Kingdom’s estranged royalist parties will form an alliance later this month in a preliminary move towards reuniting ahead of elections scheduled for 2012 and 2013, party officials said.
Funcinpec Secretary General Nhek Bun Chhay said members of the boards of his party and the Nationalist Party (NP) had reviewed and approved an agreement Saturday, and would seal the alliance in a ceremony after the Khmer New Year holiday.
“We want to sign this agreement to create a Funcinpec-Nationalist alliance as soon as possible to boost our votes in the 2012 commune election and 2013 general election,” he said.
Nhek Bun Chhay said that by 2012, the two parties would register together under the Funcinpec name, adding that the parties had entered a “transitional period” in which the NP could inform members about the merger.
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