Khmer Renovation Party

Khmer Renovation Party
គណបក្សកំណែទម្រង់ខ្មែរ
Parti de la rénovation khmère
LeaderSisowath Monipong
FounderLon Nol
Nhiek Tioulong
FoundedSeptember 1947
Dissolved1955
Merged intoSangkum
IdeologyKhmer nationalism
Monarchism[1]
Conservatism[1]
Political positionCentre-right
ReligionTheravada Buddhism
National affiliationSangkum

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.

  1. ^ a b "1955 polls: the Sangkum takes hold". phnompenhpost.com. 13 February 1998. Retrieved 12 July 2019.