Cameroon’s electoral body bars president’s main rival from standing

Cameroon’s electoral commission, ELECAM, on Saturday launched that opposition flesh presser Maurice Kamto was barred from contesting the 12 October presidential polls.

The notorious college professor and extinct executive minister was widely considered as per chance the most serious challenger to  prolonged-standing President Paul Biya.

ELECAM stated Kamto had didn’t conform with appropriate requirements by accepting a nomination from the Cameroon Renaissance Mosey, which boycotted legislative and municipal elections in 2020.

It says that beneath Section 121 of the electoral code, this implies the plod is no longer any longer eligible to point out a candidate.

Kamto had are available second space with 14 per cent of the vote within the final elections in 2018, which Biya acquired by a landslide amid allegations of fraud.

The 71-300 and sixty five days-old’s exclusion raises the possibility of protests and leaves pretty 12 out of the greater than 80 applicants hoping to interchange the 92-300 and sixty five days-old Biya within the discipline.

In energy for nearly 43 years, Biya launched earlier this month that he would survey an eighth seven-300 and sixty five days timeframe apart from job.