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

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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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"You are touching not just a film star here, but the whole culture of Cambodia, " says a senior member of the royalist Funcinpec party.

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Ranariddh's royalist Funcinpec party can count on significant grassroots support and could be the most potent rival to the CPP, but Hun Sen's "coup" last July has left it devastated.

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The U.N. has documented the killing of some 40 members of Ranariddh's party, Funcinpec, during and just after the coup.

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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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CPP's victory was the inevitability that the losers Funcinpec and the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party would frustrate efforts to form a new government.

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FUNCINPEC, the prince's party, was murdered.

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Contradicting earlier predictions of a tight three-way race, these postulated a result of 66 seats for the CPP, 43 for Funcinpec and just 13 for the Sam Rainsy Party.

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