<p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img src="https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/tm-img-description/f531f8711a5111ee911101117567899b.jpg" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cambodia&rsquo;s election scheduled on 23 July has been widely dismissed as a sham after the country&rsquo;s electoral commission denied registration to the Candlelight Party, the main opposition challenger to Hun Sen&rsquo;s ruling Cambodian People&rsquo;s Party.<p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hun Sen, who has ruled the country for 38 years, is vying for re-election and has been grooming his eldest son Hun Manet to take over running the country.<p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His party won every seat in the 2018 national election after a court ordered the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party to be dissolved.<p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ahead of this year&rsquo;s campaign kicking off, Hun Sen dumped Facebook after it announced it would remove a video in which he threatened to beat opponents with a stick if they accused his party of vote theft in the national polls.<p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Join us at the FCCT clubhouse to hear from:<p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chandanie WatawalaAsian Network for Free Elections executive director<p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sun NarinCambodian journalist<p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Daron Tan International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) representative<p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And others<p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Moderator: Dominic Faulder - Nikkei Asia Associate Editor and FCCT board member<p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <p style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bar and restaurant open