22/07/2025
October election: 80 "candidates"
The huge number of persons who have made "declared intentions" to stand for the Presidential election in October are not yet candidates per se.
We shall count the candidates for the election after the Constitutional Council will publish their list. By then it will be a list of those who gave the expected documents including a receipt of payment of 30 million cfaf in the State treasury.
Those ones so selected would have paid the fee, knowing that they can only be refunded the money if they get at least 10 percent of the votes.
In 2018 only Paul Biya and Maurice Kamto got the percentage and were rei.bursed their registration fee.
This means that any of those "jokers" on the list of "declared" candidtaes simply gave ELECAM unnecessary work. One of them told journalists how they will give their 10,000 votes to Paul Biya, barely minutes after visiting the ELECAM office. Another one from the Cpdm party sent his documents through the post office. Others notably came up to declare their intentions as a way to challenge their party hierarchy as we saw in the MANIDEM and the FSNC.
We therefore wait with patience.