The 18 Political Parties Tha Are Authorized To Give Investiture To A Candidate For The 2025 Presidential Election

  But If President Biya, is candidate, at least six of these 18 parties will not send in candidates for the election

MRC Lawyer argues that UPC is not supposed to be among the 18 parties that qualify to send in a candidate for the presidential election

In line with Cameroon’s Electoral Code which was modified in 2012, a total of 18 political parties qualify or are authorized to each give investiture to a candidate for the 2025 presidential election.  According to the Electoral Code, these are parties that are either represented in the National Assembly, the Senate or in the Municipal Council. This means that a party that manages to have just one councilor in a municipal council, is authorized to send in a candidate for the presidential election, as  it is considered to be present in the council. Yet, out of the over 300 political parties in Cameroon, only 18 qualify to send in a candidate for the 2025 presidential election.

Even as regard the 18 parties, some legal minds like Barrister Roland Dieuwou of MRC, contest the presence of UPC on the list. This is because the Law talks of elected representatives of political parties in the National Assembly, Senate or Municipal Council. UPC which did not participate at the last legislative and municipal elections that took place  in 2020, and thus has no MP or councilor, is on the list of political parties authorized to send in a candidate for  the 2025 presidential election, thanks to the one senator it has. But as Barrister Roland Dieuwou has pointed out, the UPC Senator is one the 30 senators that President Biya appointed. He argues that the Law talks of elected represented and not appointed representative.  The lawyer thus argues that since the UPC Senator was appointed and not elected, UPC is not supposed to be on the list of political parties that are authorized to give investiture to a candidate for the 2025 presidential election.

Parties That Will Not Give Investiture To A candidate, If President Biya is Candidate

Meanwhile among the 18 political parties that are authorized by Law to give investiture to a candidate for the 2025 presidential election, there are about half a dozen of these parties that will not send in any candidate for the election, if  the 92 year old President Paul Bya, whom many Cameroonians hope will finally retire this year after 42 long years in power,  decide to run at the 2025 presidential election, These are political parties that are in alliance with the ruling CPDM party, or have an understanding with President Biya to support his candidature. These parties include: Bello Bouba Maigari’s UNDP, Issa Tchiroma Bakary’s FSNC, late Dakole Daissala’s  MDR, and Hamadou Moustapha’s ANDP. There is also Robert Bapooh Lipot’s UPC faction that support’s Presient Biya’s candidature. It is the faction that has the one senator that Biya appointed.  There is also ‘Mouvement Progressistes’ whose Founding President, Jean Jacques Ekindi, has returned to the CPDM.

 BELOW ARE THE 18 POLIITCAL PARTIES THAT ARE AUTHORISED BY THE ELECTORAL CODE, TO SEND IN A CANDIDATE FOR THE 2025 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:

• CPDM Party (President – Paul BIYA)

152 MPs

94 Senators

• Councils

 

• UNDP Party (President – Bello Bouba MAIGARI).

7 MPs

I Senator

• Councils

 

• SDF Party (President – Joshua Nambangi  OSIH)

5 MPs

1 Senator

• councils

 

• PCRN Party (President – Cabral LIBII NGUE)
• MPs
• Councils

 

• UDC Party (President – Hermine Patricia Tomaino epse NDAM NJOYA)

4 MPS

• Councils

 

• FSNC Party (President – Issa Tchiroma BAKARY)

3 MPs

1 Senator

• Councils

 

• MDR Party (Party of late DAKOLE DAISSALA)

2 MPS

1 Senator

• Councils
• UMS Party (President – Pierre KWEMO)

2 MPs

• Councils

 

• MPCN Party (Party of late Paul Eric KINGUE).
• Councils

 

• MCNC Party  (President – MONTHE NKOUOBITE) 
• Council

 

• PAL Party (President – Celestin BEDZIGUI

5 Councilors (Monatele Council)

 

• ANDP Party (President – Hamadou MOUSTAPHA)

1 Senator

• Councilors (Moroua III Council )

 

• UNIVERS Party (President – Prosper NKOU MVONDO)
• Councilors (Ngaoundere III Council)

 

• UPC Party ( Robert BAPOOH LIPOT’s faction)

1 Senator

 

• Mouvement Progressistes, MP Party (Former President – Jean Jacques EKINDI. Conflict over leadership currently in court)

2 Councilors (Douala 1)

 

• FDC Party (President – Denis Emilian ATANGANA).

2 Councilors ( Monatele Council)

 

• PURS Party (President – Serge Espoir MATOMBA).

1 Councilor (Douala IV Council)

 

• MANIDEM Party  (President – Anicet EKANE)

1 Councilor (Dibombari)