{"id":55185,"date":"2023-05-16T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T04:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/cambodias-only-major-opposition-party-is-barred-from-running-in-july-elections"},"modified":"2023-05-16T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T04:40:13","slug":"cambodias-only-major-opposition-party-is-barred-from-running-in-july-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55185","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia\u2019s only major opposition party is barred from running in July elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Candlelight party failed to provide registration documents, says election commission, but party says they were seized in a police raid in 2017<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia\u2019s national election committee has refused to register the opposition Candlelight party, the sole credible challenger to the governing Cambodian People\u2019s party, ahead of elections in July.<\/p>\n<p>The committee ruled on Monday that the party had failed to provide the necessary documents, leaving it only a very slim chance of taking part in the elections by successfully appealing to the constitutional council.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/cambodias-only-major-opposition-party-is-barred-from-running-in-july-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candlelight party failed to provide registration documents, says election commission, but party says they were seized in a police raid in 2017Cambodia\u2019s national election committee has refused to register the opposition Candlelight party, the sole cred&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambodia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55186,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55185\/revisions\/55186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}