By Christopher Ambe
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| President Paul Biya |
Cameroon's Supreme Court yesterday
Thursday October 17 declared that President Paul Biya's ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
(CPD M) has retained its firm control of the National Assembly, following last September 30 parliamentary election. The National
assembly is the lower house of Cameroon’s Parliament, and the upper house is
the Senate.
According to the poll results released by the Supreme Court, sitting in lieu
of the yet-to-created Constitutional Council, the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
won 148 of the 180 legislative seats.
Cameroon’s leading opposition party, the Social
Democratic Front (SDF) led by John Fru Ndi came a distant second with 18
seats.
The Court proclaimed the results after it rejected more than 40 petitions
against the conduct of the election, citing lack of sufficient evidence and the
non-respect of legal procedures in filing the complaints.
The various petitions said the election was marred by numerous
irregularities such as rigging and absence of ballot papers of other parties.
The CPDM also has a sweeping majority in Cameroon’s newly created 100-seat Senate,
and has just won 305 of the country’s 360 councils.
Biya, aged 80 plus, has been President of the CPDM since March 1985 and President
of Cameroon since November 1982.
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