Norodom Ranariddh is the president of FUNCINPEC, a Cambodian royalist party. He is the second son of Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and a half-brother of the current king, NorodOM Sihamoni. He was also the First Prime Minister of Cambodia following the restoration of the monarchy, serving between 1993 and 1997.
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Norodom Ranariddh is the president of FUNCINPEC, a Cambodian royalist party. He was also the First Prime Minister of Cambodia following the restoration of the monarchy, serving between 1993 and 1997. He also served as the President of the National Assembly between 1998 and 2006. He is the second son of Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and a half-brother of the current king, NorodOM Sihamoni. Ranar Siddh is a graduate of the University of Provence and started his career as a law researcher and lecturer in France. In 1958, he was sent to a boarding school in Marseille together with his half-rapong brother Norrapong Chakamak. After finishing high school, he enrolled in the undergraduate law programme of University of Paris. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1968 and 1969, respectively, in public law. In 1962, he took the PhD of public law in Paris, qualifying in 1969. He has a son and a daughter with his first wife, Phat Kanhol, who was a ballet dancer attached to the royal court. In 1998, he founded the Norodoms Ranaridh Party. Accusations and a conviction of embezzlement drove him into exile again. He returned to Cambodia afer being pardoned in September 2008 and retired from politics. In 2014, he launched the short-lived Community of Royalist People’s Party before returning to FUNCinPEC in January 2015.
He was subsequently re-elected to the FUNCInPEC presidency. In 2001 he renounced his interest in the succession to the throne of Cambodia, until in 2001 he was seen as a potential successor to the King of Cambodia. In 2004 he was one of the nine members of the throne council which selected Sihamonia as SihAnouk’s successor. In 2008, he unsuccessfully attempted a merger of his NRP with FUNC INPEC. In 2012, he tried to merge the NRP and FUNC InPEC again, but was unsuccessful. In 2013, he returned to the party to lead its campaign for the 2014 general election. He currently serves as a member of the Cambodian National Assembly (NCA) and the National Council of Cambodia (NCC). He is also the president and vice-chairman of the Cambodia National Party (CNC) He is married to the former Cambodian Prime Minister, Phnom Penh-born Phnom Pong. He had two children with his second wife, who is also a former ballet dancer. In 2009, he had a son with his third wife, Heng Chhay, who died in a car crash. He now lives in France and works as a professor of law in the city of Marseille. In 2011, he moved to Paris to work for the French Ministry of Justice. He lives with his wife and two children in the French capital, Paris.
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