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June 27th, 2008 at 4:33am
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AFTER THE SIXTH PARTY CONGRESS
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. " AFTER THE SIXTH PARTY CONGRESS By Martin Stuart-Fox Department of History, University of Queensland The Sixth Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) was held in Viang Chan from 18-20 March 1996, with none of the delay that attended the 1991 Fifth Congress. Then there was widespread debate over the wording of the Constitution and continuing concern over the fallout from the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Five years later the LPRP was firmly in power, the economy was, if not booming, then at least developing at a reasonable rate and in the right direction, and Laos was looking forward to joining ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) in 1997. The Party could thus concentrate on its internal affairs and policy directions. This brief article will examine the outcome of the Sixth Congress, and attempt to assess some of its political and policy implications. In a Party like the LPRP, power is highly personalized and hierarchical, in part because political institutions are weakly developed, and in part because Lao political culture still rests on interŠlinked family (clan) and regional/ethnic patronage networks that are both hierarchical and personal. For this reason changes in membership of the upper echelons of the Party are carefully noted and analysed as an indication of the relative political influence of powerful individuals. So even though the Congress brought together 381 delegates representing more than 78,000 Party members (15,000 more than in 1991, but still only about 1.7% of the total population), interest focused almost entirely on the membership of the Political Bureau (Politburo) and the Central Committee. Changes in the Politburo were most significant, not just because more faces changed than at any previous Congress, but because by any estimation it appeared that the Army had gained control of the Party. Of the nine members of the new Politburo, no fewer than seven have a military " .... read entire page
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