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Powersharing Transitional Government – 1996

Joint leadership of the government continued between FUNCINPEC and the CCP (both signatories of the Paris agreement). Power-sharing shifted dramatically in the new coalition government.¹ The CPP never really shared power in the coalition government, but obstructed all efforts by FUNCINPEC to govern. FUNCINPEC, for its part, lacked qualified administrators. The coalition never functioned well, and over the course of the three years, it descended in an ever-worsening spiral.

1. Sorpong Peou, Intervention & Change in Cambodia: Towards Democracy? (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), ch. 5-6.