After a year as Cambodia's PM, Hun Manet reigns but dad still rules

Leader's legitimacy is tied to economic progress

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Hun Manet, then nominee for Cambodia's prime minister, stands outside the National Assembly in Phnom Penh in August 2023. © Reuters

David Hutt is a research fellow at the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS) and Southeast Asia columnist at the Diplomat. He writes the Europe Meets Southeast Asia newsletter."

The 19th-century British politician Thomas Macaulay once defined a constitutional monarchy as a system wherein "a sovereign reigns but does not rule."

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