PM backs off dual-citizenship law

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday reversed his position on creating a law ahead of the next general election that would have prohibited political party leaders from holding dual citizenship. Speaking on the 37th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime yesterday, Hun Sen said that leaders of political parties should be free to hold multiple nationalities and still be eligible to stand in the polls.

On December 28, Hun Sen went on the offensive against self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy, saying that his “continued insults” would land him in trouble ahead of the next election in 2018. “This is to avoid people who face trouble [in the country] and hold a foreign passport from easily running out of the country and calling for foreigners to intervene,” Hun Sen said of the mooted move against dual citizenship.

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