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Cameroon/2020 Legislative polls: SDF loses 13 seats at National Assembly.
The Social Democratic Front party , SDF, has the possibility to form a parliamentary group at the National Assembly if the party wins at least 10 of the 13 seats up for grabs during a rerun ordered by the Constitutional Council. The partial proclamation of results of the 2020 Legislative elections last Friday during a solemn session of the Constitutional Council chaired by its President, Justice Clement Atangana , saw the party win just five seats.
According to these partial results, the SDF which for the first time occupied the third position won just five seats out of the one hundred and sixty-seven available, far behind the eighteen seats obtained in the 2013 parliamentary elections.
With this number of seats, Ni John Fru Ndi’s party lost the possibility to form a parliamentary group like it has always been the case since 1997. The situation may yet change after the re-run of elections in the North West and South West regions.
The case is very much different from the latter’s rival, the CPDM party which swept one hundred and thirty-nine seats.
Paul Biya’s party is followed by the NUDP which won seven seats.
Cabral Libii’s PCRN took five seats, positioning itself at the third place alongside the SDF.
The party that follows is the CDU with four seats. The FSNC, for its part, took three, and both the MDR and the UMS took two seats.
While proclaiming the results last Friday, Justice Clement Atangana indicated that the electoral process was conducted in a free, fair and transparent manner in spite of the low participation rate of 45.9%.