In Cameroon, registration on the electoral lists for the year 2024 ends in four months. The political parties are hard at work to encourage voters to register, with a view to the 2025 deadlines. To convince potential voters, the MRC of Maurice Kamto and the RDPC in power are investing in the crossroads where the agents of Elecam, the independent body responsible for organizing the elections.
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With our correspondent in Yaoundé, Richard Onanena
“ Come and register on the electoral lists! »: for two hours, Milan Tchatchoua, MRC activist and his comrades have been inviting passers-by at the Nsimeyong chapel crossroads to register on the electoral lists. If necessary, they do not hesitate to communicate with them.
Absent from the last elections, the MRC is on the ground looking for potential voters. One of its activists speaks of a “ craze » : « Cameroon has become aware. The registration craze has taken a turn. We have already used a kit [d’inscription], we are down to two kits and we are going to order the third. So we’re really overwhelmed. »
In the Etoug Ebe district, in the 6th arrondissement of Yaoundé, the RDPC mayor of the commune Yoki Onana also launches a massive registration operation on the electoral lists. Yoki Onana is also president of the RDPC subsection of Yaoundé 6. “ We are hard at work to maximize registrations, to register all our activists, all our supporters, all the populations who may be in favor of the CPDM vote », he explains
Elecam’s files show just over 7 million registrants. Insufficient, according to the opposition : for Cameroonian MP Cabral Libih, Cameroon should have at least 11 million voters, having nearly 30 million inhabitants.
Opened on January 1, Elecam will close registrations on the electoral lists on the evening of August 31, 2024, as is the case every non-electoral year.
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