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What happened in the 1993 Cambodian elections?

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In the 1993 elections, the royalist party outpolled Hun Senā€™s Cambodian Peopleā€™s Party, leading to a coalition government with Prince Norodom Ranariddh as first prime minister and Hun Sen as second prime minister. In 1997 Hun Sen would depose Prince Ranariddh with a violent coup and consolidate sole power after the prince made overtures to remnants of the Khmer Rouge.