US EditionOutspoken Critic of Cameroon President Excluded From October Election
CAMEROON, JUL 29 – Maurice Kamto's exclusion stems from a dispute over the Manidem party candidacy, with the electoral council listing 13 approved candidates for the October election.
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Cameroon: Opposition Leader Blocked from Election
Maurice Kamto, a high-profile critic of Cameroon's long-running President Paul Biya has been excluded by electoral authorities from the list of approved candidates able to run in the 12 October presidential vote.By RFIMaurice Kamto, 71, had officially submitted his candidacy last week, one of 83 names put forward to the electoral council.He sought to run as the candidate for the African Movement for New Independence and Democracy (MANIDEM). But …
Escaped from the provisional list of candidates, the former president of the Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC) filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council.
Outspoken critic of Cameroon president excluded from October election
Maurice Kamto, a high-profile critic of Cameroon's long-running President Paul Biya has been excluded by electoral authorities from the list of approved candidates able to run in the 12 October presidential vote.
Elecam had registered Mr. Léon Theiller Onana as a candidate for the rdpc as indicated in the official document below. Following a tripatoulage in order not to reject Paul Biya's candidacy because of the multiplicity of nomination within the rdpc, elecam arranged to reject Léon Theiller Onana's candidacy on the grounds that he was neither invested by a political party nor an independent candidate. It was this juggling that allowed Paul Biya's ca…
Manidem plans appeal for Kamto’s rejected candidacy – Cameroon Concord News
Erik Essousse, director of general elections, informed Maurice Kamto that his candidacy for the 2025 presidential election was rejected due to “multiple nominations by the Manidem” party. The Electoral Council also disqualified Dieudonné Yebga, who submitted his bid under the same party affiliation. According to Elecam, this dual endorsement caused legal confusion, rendering both Kamto’s and Yebga’s candidacies inadmissible. Anicet Ekane, founde…
The voices heard are attributed to Dieudonné Yebga and a certain Jean Benoit Beneficiary Mevoa, both from MANIDEM. An unauthentified telephone conversation attributed to Dieudonné Yebga, mandator of the MANIDEM recalculated in the presidential elections of 12 October 2025 and to Benoît Bénéfice Mevoa is in circulation on the Web. Both interlocutors, like two friends, speak in all conviviality. They discuss the subject of the presidential electio…
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