By RFPosted on 25-11-2019Modified on 25-11-2019 at 19:42
In Cameroon, the MRC announced Monday (November 25th) that it will not participate in the legislative and municipal elections, convened for February 9, 2020.
It was at the end of a consultation with the executive board of the party that Maurice Kamto communicated this decision of the MRC to withdraw the legislative to journalists. The RCM will not go to the elections, as long as the crisis and instability continue in the North West and South West regions, he explained in substance.
Holding elections in the current conditions of destructuring these English-speaking regions would be tantamount to condoning the de facto partition of Cameroon, insisted Maurice Kamto.
The electoral code pointed out
The other main reason for this withdrawal is the non-revision of the electoral code that the MRC considers advantageous to the ruling party. Based on his participation in the last elections, the legislative and municipal 2013 and the presidential election of October 2018 , Maurice Kamto has concluded that " without a revised electoral code and consensual, the same causes will produce the same effects " .
He also called on the other political parties of the opposition, civil society and Cameroonians in general, to join in this boycott dynamic too.
This withdrawal on the wire in this closing day of applications has surprised more than one observer. The MRC like other political parties that have actively worked in recent weeks to invest its candidates.
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