more is going to be a correspondent on the heart to he's been covering events for us in cambodia busta anna is cambodia today a one party state for all intents and purposes and what does this mean for the country and the wider region. well yeah it definitely is a one party state and it was pretty much before since the main opposition party as we heard in the report was the solved later that year then the ruling party they took all of the seats that belonged to the opposition so basically it was a one party one party state in effect before as well but now of course it's official now they announce that they officially one all of the seats in parliament and of course that means that then the prime minister and who has been prime minister for thirty three years he can he can tighten its grip on power even further and that is a development layer that is not unique to cambodia it's something that happened in many countries in this region take thailand for example a military dictatorship and then me even me and mari we had you know historic elections a few years ago but still the military. very im