The CPP

The Cambodian People’s Party is the party in power in Cambodia. The party was formerly known as the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea (KPRP, French acronym “PRPK ‘). He was the only legal party in the country at the time of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) from 1981 to 1989 and first two years of State of Cambodia from 1989 to 1991. Its name was changed during the transition period the State of Cambodia, where he left the party system and the Marxist-Leninist.

The party’s general secretary in December 1981 was 1979-5 Pen Sovan. The KPRP was originally a Marxist-Leninist, but it has taken a more reformist in the early 1980 under the leadership of Heng Samrin’s. Currently, the party has a majority in the National Assembly of Cambodia, but governs in coalition with the royalist FUNCINPEC. The current (2007) Prime Minister Hun Sen is the vice president of the party. The party adheres to a platform of socialism.

The original of Kampuchea (or red) People’s Revolutionary Party (KPRP) was founded in the French colonial period, in September 1951, when the Indochinese Communist Party (PCI), founded by Ho Chi Minh in 1930, was broken up into three national parties, they KPRP, Vietnam Workers’ Party and Lao Itsala before the independence of the three countries. The party’s name was changed to the PTC in 1960 and the KCP in 1966. In a sense KPRP was a new organization in another sense it is a continuation of the parties that preceded it. The date of the founding KPRP is uncertain, although its first party congress held in public was invited in May 1981; the party was able to enter into force after the middle of 1978 long after even the HCG diet was created and discovered in Cambodia.

A national committee headed by Pen Sovan was appointed by Congress. The organization was considered the heir to the authentic original KPRP founded in 1951 (which had developed in CPK), and marked the conference, the conference ’3 rd party (i.e., do not recognize Congress 1963, 1975 and CPK 1978 as legitimate). The party considers June 28, 1951 due date. The women’s wing of the party, the National Association of Women for the salvation of Kampuchea, was established in 1979 with an extensive national network of lay members at the district level.

The existence of the party was kept secret until its fourth congress in May 1981, when it was released publicly and the name of KPRP. The name change was “clearly distinct from the reactionary party Poll Pot, and to emphasize the continuity and excellence of the best traditions of the party.

In the policy report for the fourth Pen Sovan Party Congress held May 26 to May 29, 1981, was careful to distance Pot Survey CPK and CPK KPRP has denounced as a traitor to the party and the nation. The KPRP decided at the Fourth Party Congress to operate “open”. This move seemed to reflect the confidence of managers increasingly on its ability to stay in power despite the ongoing guerrilla war with the Khmer Rouge. The move may have had a practical dimension as well because it was the people more actively in the regime’s attempt to build political and administrative infrastructure of the country.