PoliticsCambodia's PM wants law change to shut door on opponents
Hun Sen seeks to bar dual citizens from top posts as crackdown splinters rivals
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen gestures during a speech in Phnom Penh in January 2020. The authoritarian leader has ruled the Southeast Asian country for more than three decades. © AP
SHAUN TURTON, Contributing Writer
October 15, 2021 13:06 JST
PHNOM PENH -- Hun Sen, Cambodia's prime minister for more than three decades, will make it even more difficult for some of his longtime opponents to seek to replace him ahead of elections in 2022 and 2023 by making top posts off-limits to dual nationals.