Khmer Renovation Party គណបក្សកំណែទម្រង់ខ្មែរ Parti de la rénovation khmère | |
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Leader | Sisowath Monipong |
Founder | Lon Nol Nhiek Tioulong |
Founded | September 1947 |
Dissolved | 1955 |
Merged into | Sangkum |
Ideology | Khmer nationalism Monarchism[1] Conservatism[1] |
Political position | Centre-right |
Religion | Theravada Buddhism |
National affiliation | Sangkum |
Khmer Renovation Party (Khmer: គណបក្សកំណែទម្រង់ខ្មែរ; French: Parti de la rénovation khmère), also translated as Khmer Renewal Party, was an anti-communist, nationalist and royalist political party founded in Cambodia in September 1947. In 1955, it became one of the core elements of the Sangkum political movement of the Prince Norodom Sihanouk.
The party is mainly significant because key members Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak would go on to lead the right-wing coup of 1970 against Sihanouk and his Sangkum regime.