In Cambodia’s Election Impasse, Echoes of Malaysia by Colin Meyn

In Cambodia’s Election Impasse, Echoes of Malaysia

The Cambodia Daily - August 23, 2013

As the CPP is facing a crisis in confidence among the electorate, the ruling party has to figure out how to adopt more populist policies, such as those pushed by the opposition, while at the same time maintaining the patronage systems that have kept them in power.

The CPP is going to have to rethink their strategies, and I think we’re going to see one of two possible outcomes. We could see a return to hard-line authoritarianism in the country, where the facade of democracy is cast to the wind or we’ll see attempts to make nice publicly, while working behind the scenes to exploit any cracks that might exist in the opposition party. (Simon Springer, a Southeast Asia expert at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.)

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(It's been edited a little bit to focus more on Cambodia)