Funcinpec is a royalist Cambodian political party. It is part of the current governing coalition, along with the Cambodian People's Party. In the National Assembly of Cambodia it currently has 26 members, out of 123, who were elected in 2003 on a 20.8% share of the vote.
It traces its roots to Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian independence leader and former King of Cambodia, and is led by his eldest son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh.
Funcinpec is a French abbreviation for Front Uni National pour un Cambodge Indépendant, Neutre, Pacifique, et Coopératif, which translates to "National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia."
He is a key leader of the Cambodian People's Party, which, has governed Cambodia in a coalition with the Funcinpec party since the restoration of multi-party democracy in 1993.
The coalition was shaken by tensions between Funcinpec leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Hun Sen, who in 1997 launched a bloody coup, removing Ranariddh and becoming the country's sole prime minister.
The elections of July 2003 resulted in a larger majority in the National Assembly for the CPP, with FUNCINPEC losing seats to CPP and the Sam Rainsy Party.
The party firmly believes that the CC’s decision was erroneous as it did not consider in detail, any of the complaints and has rejected the appeals made by the party on August 11, 1998 as included in the transmittal No. 162/98 and received by the CC on August 13, 1998 at 16:30 PM..
In its transmittal, the FUNCINPEC party had filed details on procedural irregularities, partiality and intimidation perpetrated by the NEC personnel at the communes and the provincial levels in the run up to the elections, on the polling day and at the counting centers.
The FUNCINPEC cannot accept the revised formula published in Annex V of the Procedures and Regulations for the Election of the Members of the National Assembly for it failed to have the approval of the NEC members as recorded in its minutes of May 29, 1998.
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