In his opening remarks, CPP Honorary PresidentSamdech Heng Samrin, who is also President of the National Assembly, said 2023marks an end to the 2018-2023 mandate of the legislature and the government,and it will also be the beginning of a new five-year tenure.
There will be a lot of work to do in the future, hesaid, stressing the need to join hands and make all-out efforts to win the 7th-termparliamentary election slated for July 23, 2023.
The congress set out major strategic goals for thenext five years which are based on wishes of the people and reflect the realsituation, both domestically and internationally, with the aim of reapinggreater achievements across spheres and turning Cambodia into an upper-middleincome country by 2030.
According to a statement on the congress’s outcome, HunSen was endorsed to be the prime minister candidate for the July nationalelection, while Hun Manet was endorsed as the future prime minister candidate.
CPP is the largest political Party of Cambodia,which has been ruling the country for the past six tenures. In the fifth communalelection in 2022, the Party won 9,376 seats, including 1,648 out of the 1,652leading positions in communes and wards nationwide./.