PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIAN Prince Norodom Ranariddh returned to politics on Saturday with a vow to reinvigorate the flagging royalist movement, taking the helm of his former party which has re-adopted his name.
Two years after quitting politics, Prince Ranariddh, who was Cambodia's first elected prime minister in 1993 after years of civil war, was re-instated as president of the party he created during a meeting in the capital.
Party members also agreed to re-name the Nationalist Party the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP).
The 66-year-old son of former king Norodom Sihanouk said in a speech that he was returning to politics to re-unite royalists ahead of 2012 local elections and a 2013 general election.
'I have seen that the royalists are hopeless, separated, I want them to be one family,' he said.
Prince Ranariddh called for an alliance with fellow royalist party Funcinpec, with him as leader. -- AFP
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