United People of Cambodia
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United People of Cambodia គណបក្សសង្គមខ្មែរនិយម | |
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Leader | Sarath Oeurn |
Founded | August 2003 |
Ideology | Big tent |
Political position | Syncretic Fiscal: Right-Wing |
The United People of Cambodia was a political party created by its former president, Sarath Oeurn, in August 2003. Oeurn lives in America and only visits Cambodia and his party once a year in July. At the moment it is not led by Oeurn but its acting party president Tit Thang.
Political ideology
Its
political ideology on the right-wing promotes controlling illegal immigration in a responsible manner as their president says illegal immigrants not only create “instability” because they came to Cambodia illegally but also because they sometimes ”tend to do illegal things.” The party also has a left-wing
ideology as part of its political position where the UPC would prevent “unequal distribution of wealth” and “land management”. This political party wishes that when it gets to have some control of the “government” UPC would fulfill “a tax on large land holdings in order to decrease the number of land disputes.”
The party president believes this will prevent rich people from trying “to take land and might even give up land because of the
Prey Veng.[1]
References
- ^ "Story in the Cambodia daily (March 2007)". Archived from the original on 2007-10-23. Retrieved 2008-09-13.