The Cambodian National Unity Party (Khmer: គណបក្សសាមគ្គីជាតិកម្ពុជា) was a political party set up by the Khmer Rouge on 30 November 1992, during the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia to participate in the elections that year.
[4] Its professed aim at its founding was to "work towards implementing multi-party liberal democracy.
Subsequently, UNTAC decided not to conduct elections in areas under CNUP control.
[6] At the time it was estimated that approximately six percent of the population in Cambodia lived in areas under Khmer Rouge control.
[8] In August 1996, the party suffered a split when Ieng Sary and his followers in North-Western Cambodia broke away and founded the Democratic National Union Movement.