Hun Sen nixes ban on dual-national party leaders
In his latest abrupt policy backtracking, Prime Minister Hun Sen used a speech on 7 January to rescind a recently announced plan to ban dual nationals from leading political parties—an effort that had ostensibly been aimed at the self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy.
On 28 December, Mr. Hun Sen said that the Law on Political Parties “must state that political party leaders must have only Cambodian nationality,” noting that Mr. Rainsy had once again fled to his home in Paris after being ordered arrested in Cambodia.
