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CAMEROON: Parliamentary and Municipal elections at all cost?

CAMEROON: Parliamentary and Municipal elections at all cost?
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In his press conference held in Yaoundé 2nd December 2020, the Minister of communication and states spokesman Rene Emanuel Sadi said that the municipal and legislative elections of February 9th 2020 will be held in Cameroon as decreed by the Head of State. The Minister came out in this rendezvous with the press after the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM) political party has early come up to boycott the elections just a day to the death line of depositing of documents. A move that sparked a lot of controversy. After Pr Maurice Kamto had come out to say that his party was not going for the elections, toeing the line of Edith Kabang walla president of the Cameroon Peoples Party (CPP) who had since the first day said she and her party where not going for the elections, other political parties like the Social Democratic front (SDF) had come out to say that they will go for the elections if only the President of the republic ended the 3 years old war in the Northwest and Southwest Regions  (which is coincidentally their strong hold) of the country before 9th February 2020, the voting day.  

In almost the same line of though, Cabral Libi of the Cameroonian Party for National Reconciliation (CPNR) and Paul Eric Kingue of the Patriotic Movement for a New Cameroon (PMNC) both ask for a prolongation of the death line to deposit documents by two weeks because there was a lot of bottlenecks in the compilation of the required documents.

However, in the Minister’s press conference it was clearly said that there will be no prolongation and that all the candidates of all the parties went through the same stress, there is no reason that others succeed to deposit theirs and others don’t. So the election date remains unchanged according to the Election Cameroon (ELECAM). As such the question that goes in all the lips is, what will happened to the inhabitants of the two troubled regions who are in the bushes, how will they vote. The politicians who are born in the restive region which now has completely no administration anymore, how will they have their necessary documents signed. If the elections go on without this two regions having their municipal and parliamentary representatives, is it not officially dividing the country and playing in game of the secessionists indirectly?


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