{"id":56889,"date":"2023-07-23T09:41:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T00:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/23\/cambodia-strongman-hun-sen-set-to-claim-landslide-election-victory-after-banning-opposition"},"modified":"2023-07-23T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T00:41:50","slug":"cambodia-strongman-hun-sen-set-to-claim-landslide-election-victory-after-banning-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56889","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia strongman Hun Sen set to claim landslide election victory after banning opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time ruler, who has ruthlessly oppressed critics, has indicated he will soon hand power to his son<\/p>\n<p>Cambodians have begun voting in a one-sided general election in which the country\u2019s strongman leader will run virtually uncontested.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s expected that Hun Sen, 70, who has ruled the country for almost four decades, will claim a landslide victory in Sunday\u2019s vote. The country\u2019s main opposition party, the Candlelight Party, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/cambodias-only-major-opposition-party-is-barred-from-running-in-july-elections\">banned from running<\/a> after it was accused of not providing the right paperwork.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/23\/cambodia-strongman-hun-sen-set-to-claim-landslide-election-victory-after-banning-opposition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time ruler, who has ruthlessly oppressed critics, has indicated he will soon hand power to his sonCambodians have begun voting in a one-sided general election in which the country\u2019s strongman leader will run virtually uncontested.It\u2019s expected tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"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":[41,361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56889","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56890,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56889\/revisions\/56890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}