The Liberal Democratic Party was a

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n political party founded in May 1990 by

Sak Sutsakhan Major general Sak Sutsakhan (; 8 February 1928Some sources give 2 August. – 29 April 1994) was a Cambodian politician and soldier who had a long career in the country's politics. He was the last Head of State of the Khmer Republic, the regime ...

, a former commander in the

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. The party was notably the first political party in Cambodia to hold a party congress following the

1991 Paris Peace Agreements The Paris Peace Agreements (; ), officially the Comprehensive Cambodian Peace Agreements, was signed on 23 October 1991 and marked the official end of the Cambodian–Vietnamese War and the Third Indochina War. The agreement led to the deployme ...

History

The party was created after infighting between Sutsakhan and

Son Sann Son Sann (, ; 5 October 191119 December 2000) was a Cambodian politician and anti-communist resistance leader who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Cambodia (1967–68) and later as President of the National Assembly (1993). A devout ...

following the Paris Peace Accords of 1991 led Sutsakhan to split from the

Khmer People's National Liberation Front The Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF, ) was a political front organized in 1979 in opposition to the Vietnamese-installed People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) regime in Cambodia. The 200,000 Vietnamese troops supporting the PRK, as ...

(KPNLF), an

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group originally started by Son Sann. In 1992, the Liberal Democratic Party held a party congress at

Phnom Penh Olympic Stadium The National Olympic Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It has a capacity of 50,000. Despite its name, the stadium has never hosted an Olympic Games. History Construction on the National Sports Complex started in 1 ...

. The Liberal Democratic Party won 62,698 votes (1.6%) in the 1993 national election, failing to win a single seat in the

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