Why Did Cambodia’s Hun Sen Reshuffle His Cabinet?

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Cambodia’s prime minister Hun Sen has again reshuffled his cabinet as his long-ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) struggles to find relevancy with an electorate which has grown tired of corruption and a persistently widening wealth gap. Importantly, Hun Sen appears to have shored up his reform agenda, helped by the retirement of career diplomat Hor Namhong. He served as Cambodia’s foreign minister between 1990 and 1993 and again since 1998 but his career was dogged by claims he collaborated with the Khmer Rouge.

Hor Namhong, 80, was replaced by Prak Sokhon, 61, a former advisor to Hun Sen who became the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications after the 2013 election when the CPP was returned but only after the party suffered a big swing against it. Ministers for land management, commerce, agriculture, transport, rural affairs and religion were also replaced in the mid-term reshuffle. Some resigned before they could be sacked.

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