US EditionCameroon’s Constitutional Council Bars Main Opposition Candidate From Presidential Race
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON, AUG 5 – The Constitutional Council upheld Kamto's disqualification due to internal party conflicts, solidifying President Biya's path to reelection in the October 12 vote, officials said.
- Cameroon's Constitutional Council rejected opposition candidate Maurice Kamto's appeal to be reinstated on the ballot for the upcoming presidential election.
- Kamto was considered President Paul Biya's strongest rival in past elections.
- Biya, 92, the world's oldest serving head of state, said he would seek re-election on October 12, despite rumors that his health is failing.
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The Constitutional Council rejected the candidacy of Maurice Kamto, a historical opponent of the undefeated president.
Cameroon's main opponent Maurice Kamto denounced, on Thursday, in a video on social networks, the "arbitrary rejection" of his candidacy for the presidential election of 12 October 2025.
In Cameroon, on Tuesday, August 5, the Constitutional Council rejected the appeal of the opponent Maurice Kamto and confirmed the decision of Elecam, the body in charge of electoral processes in Cameroon, to exclude him from the presidential race. Maurice Kamto had been officially declared second in the 2018 election. This time, on October 12, he will not be able to face President Paul Biya himself in the ballot box, who, at 92 years old, is run…
Constitutional council's decision leaves Kamto out of presidential race
Cameroon’s Constitutional Council has definitively barred opposition leader Maurice Kamto from October’s presidential election, rejecting his appeal as "lacking legal justification" in a ruling delivered Tuesday.
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