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STAT	Cambodia	Netherlands	HISTORY
Head of state	King Norodom Sihamoni	King Willem-Alexander
Head of state > Profile	<p>The son of former king Norodom Sihanouk, King Sihamoni was sworn in as monarch on 29 October 2004. The former king abdicated because of poor health.</p> <p>Born in 1953, he studied in Czechoslovakia. He left Cambodia for France after the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. He is a trained classical ballet dancer.</p> <p>Cambodia&#039;s kings once enjoyed a semi-divine status; today, the monarch&#039;s role is mainly ceremonial.</p>	<p>King Willem-Alexander became the first Dutch male monarch in more than a century in April 2013 when his mother Beatrix abdicated to end a 33-year reign. </p> <p>The generational change in the House of Orange-Nassau gave the Netherlands a moment of celebration and pageantry at a time of recession brought on by the European economic crisis. </p> <p>The much-loved Beatrix ended her reign in a nationally televised signing ceremony as thousands of orange-clad people cheered outside. Her retirement followed in the tradition of her mother and grandmother.</p> <p>Willem-Alexander&#039;s popular Argentine-born wife became Queen Maxima and their eldest daughter, Catharina-Amalia, became Princess of Orange and first in line to the throne.</p> <p>The king, a water management specialist, has said he will bring a less formal touch to the monarchy.</p>
Head of state > Summary	The king&#039;s role is largely ceremonial	King Willem-Alexander with former queen Beatrix and Queen Maxima
Prime minister	Hun Sen	Mark Rutte
Prime minister > Profile	<p>Hun Sen, one of the world&#039;s longest-serving prime ministers, has been in power in various coalitions since 1985.</p> <p>He was reappointed by parliament in September 2013 for a further five-year term. The move followed mass demonstrations and came amid a boycott of parliament by the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), which alleged fraud in the July elections.</p> <p>The prime minister&#039;s Cambodian People&#039;s Party won 68 seats in the poll, to the CNRP&#039;s 55. The CNRP said it was cheated out of 2.3 million votes.</p> <p>Hun Sen is no stranger to controversy. He seized power from his then co-prime minister, Prince Ranariddh, in 1997. More recently, some Western countries have said his rule has become increasingly authoritarian.</p> <p>Born in 1952, Hun Sen joined the Communist Party in the late 1960s and, for a time, was a member of the Khmer Rouge. He has denied accusations that he was once a top official within the movement, saying he was only an ordinary soldier.</p> <p>During the Pol Pot regime in the late 1970s he joined anti-Khmer Rouge forces based in Vietnam.</p> <p>Hun Sen has said he will rule Cambodia into his seventies. </p>	<p>Mark Rutte won a second term in October 2012 when his liberal People&#039;s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) formed a coalition with the centre-left Labour Party after narrowly beating it in parliamentary elections.</p> <p>The VVD won 41 seats in the 150-member lower house - a lead of just two seats over Labour - in the September vote.</p> <p>Mr Rutte&#039;s previous cabinet - a minority coalition with the centre-right Christian Democratic Appeal - had collapsed after only two years in office.</p> <p>It resigned in April 2012 when populist politician Geert Wilders&#039; eurosceptic, anti-immigration Freedom Party, which had been propping up the government without joining it, refused to back a tough austerity package.</p> <p>The cuts were intended to comply with EU deficit targets.</p> <p>Mark Rutte&#039;s new cabinet was seen as more pro-austerity and pro-EU than his last one.</p> <p>The new coalition warned that tough measures would be needed to weather the financial crisis and secure the Netherlands&#039; economic future.</p> <p>The Freedom Party, which had held the balance of power in the previous parliament, suffered heavy losses in the September 2012 poll and came a distant third, tying with the left-wing Socialist Party.</p>
Prime minister > Summary	Cambodia&#039;s veteran premier Hun Sen	Mark Rutte won a fresh mandate in September 2012

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