PHNOM PENH (Reuters) -Former Cambodian Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh has died in France, the Cambodian minister of knowledge mentioned. He was 77.
The prince, whose royalist political celebration received elections in 1993, was ousted in a 1997 coup by his coalition associate and rival Hun Sen, who stays Cambodia’s prime minister greater than 20 years later.
Data Minister Khieu Kanharith informed Reuters he had obtained info from the royal palace that Ranariddh had died in Paris.
Ranariddh was probably the most political member of Cambodia’s royal household in current a long time, persevering with to guide the royalist Funcinpec celebration to contest elections for years after he was ousted.
However in 2017, he dismayed opponents of Hun Sen by saying there was no possibility however to work with Hun Sen, who has successfully sidelined all opposition events and now presides over a one-party parliament.
Ranariddh emerged from the shadow of his charismatic father, King Norodom Sihanouk, and led his Funcinpec celebration to a shock victory in a historic U.N.-run vote in 1993 that was to finish greater than a decade of civil battle in Cambodia.
Though he received the vote, Ranariddh was quickly eclipsed and later ousted by the person with whom he agreed to share energy, Hun Sen, the chief of the previous Communist authorities.
(Writing by Kay JohnsonEditing by Frances Kerry)
