CNRP Says Activists Planning to Split Opposition

 CNRP Says Activists Planning to Split Opposition

The Cambodia Daily | 20 October 2014

A feud between the eldest daughter of CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha and a teenage opposition activist who shot to fame during last year’s election has once again come to a head with claims the student activist is being used in a new effort to split the opposition.

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Ms. Monovithya suggested the creation of the group would be the first stage of a broader project to create a new party to rival the CNRP.

“It is an attempt to seize the CNRP’s recent gains that belong to the various youth groups, without creating gains on their own,” Ms. Monovitha continued in her post. “It’s clear there is no group that can round up large numbers of people without the banner of the CNRP.”

Ms. Monvithya said by telephone Sunday that Mr. Ley was the driving force of the plans for the new party and that Ms. Sovantha was being used as a pawn in Mr. Ley’s political ambitions.

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