The announced creation of a parliamentary group bringing together various opposition parties in the National Assembly is the subject of debate. Its initiators intend through this group, to strengthen the place of the opposition within this institution yet very largely dominated by the CPDM, in power. But the birth of this group is far from certain: confronted as it is already by a strong opposition within the Assembly.
With our correspondent in Yaoundé, Polycarp Essomba
The 11th of March, four opposition parties had announced the creation within the National Assembly of a parliamentary group called Union for Change. The group thus created, made up of 16 deputies, is not enough to weigh on the seesaw when voting laws in the Assembly, where the CPDM alone has 152 of 180 in total.
But the group has the merit of bringing together several political parties of the opposition, a dynamic of the gathering which clearly disturbs. Thus on March 14, barely 72 hours later, the President of the Commission for Constitutional Laws, MP Zondol Hersesse of the CPDM challenged by mail to the Dean of the Lower House of Parliament the planned creation of this parliamentary group. He invokes in particular the unfounded nature of this group made up of scattered parties with none of the regulatory minimum of fifteen members to form a parliamentary group.
On March 16, the Union for Change group in turn seized the same oldest member to denounce what it describes as parliamentary sham. The group reiterated that its approach is legitimate, legal and demanded by the Cameroonian people. Diverse and varied positions which bode well for the de facto opening of a front between power and the opposition in the heart of Parliament and whose issues have not yet been clearly elucidated.