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Clean Sweep. More than half a million' others, 60% of the electorate, also voted. Their ballots gave a clean sweep to the firmly anti-Communist Sangkum (Socialist People's Community) Party, organized only six months ago by popular, chubby 32-year-old ex-King Norodom Sihanouk. The neutralist Democratic Party, which controlled the last National Assembly before its dissolution in 1952, polled a mere 18% of the votes. The Communists got almost none except in their stronghold of Kampot, shared with other minor parties only some 12%. Sangkum candidates won all 91 seats in the new Assembly...
...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...