Word: sangkum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vowed, when he abdicated, never to return to power. He is not now a candidate for office. But he founded and now heads the Sangkum Party-the Socialist People's Community-which he hopes will capture a majority of the National Assembly's 91 seats. Sihanouk, whose portrait is the party's symbol, stands for a strengthened parliamentary monarchy for the central government at Pnompenh and "democracy at a level the people can understand," i.e., provincial assemblies to run local affairs and to check up on delegates to Pnompenh...