Prince Norodom Ranariddh, head of the royalist Funcinpec party, also made an appearance in Kompong Cham.

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Hun Sen needs to persuade Funcinpec exiles to return to debate legislation and to legitimize the election.

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The royal pardon does not extend to fellow Funcinpec members who were convicted in the same trials.

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Some 50 are being held at the former Funcinpec military base near Phnom Penh's airport, where fighting first erupted.

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But a complicating factor is that his party is allied to Funcinpec through the National United Front, formed early last year.

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Bun-Ly's slaying heightened tensions in a capital already troubled by a quarrel between Ranariddh's royalist FUNCINPEC party and Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party.

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FUNCINPEC, finally signed an agreement last week to share power, with the former as prime minister and the latter as speaker of the National Assembly.

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