The Cambodian People's Party (Khmer: គណបក្សប្រជាជនកម្ពុជា, Kanakpak Pracheachun Kâmpuchéa) is the current ruling party of Cambodia.
This party was formerly known as the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP). It was the sole legal party in the country at the time of the People's Republic of Kampuchea and the first two years of the State of Cambodia. Its name was changed during the transitional times of the State of Cambodia, when the single-party system, as well as the Marxist-Leninist ideology were abandoned.
The General Secretary of the party from 1979 to December 5, 1981 was Pen Sovan. The KPRP was originally a Marxist-Leninist party, although it took on a more reformist outlook in the mid-1980s under Heng Samrin's leadership. In the 1990s, the KPRP officially dropped its Marxist-Leninist ideology when it renamed itself as the Cambodian People's Party. However, most of its KPRP-era members remained within the party, and certain aspects of its outlook that it inherited from its Communist era are still preseved. The party is headed by a 34-member Central Executive Committee, still referred to as the Politburo.
Presently the party has an outright majority in both the National Assembly and Senate, but governs in coalition with the royalist FUNCINPEC party. The current (as of 2007) Prime Minister, Hun Sen, is the vice president of the party. The party adheres to a platform of Socialism.
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