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Kamto ridiculed for calling for ‘no regional elections’

2020-09-01
No: 527

Kamto ridiculed for calling for ‘no regional elections’
 

The MRC of Maurice Kamto boycotted the February 2020 council and municipal elections, but it is surprising the party fronting for the non-holding of regional elections.

The posture of the MRC leader has been ridiculed by some observers, who think he has no locus standi to lead a ‘no regional elections’ front.

“Les elections regionales ne sont pas pour les petits partis” (Regional elections are not for petty parties) read a satirical comment online.

The satirical comment, mimicking a statement by President Biya to Kamto when he boycotted the last municipal and legislative polls, came after Kamto called on government to resolve the Anglophone crisis as a prerequisite for organizing the expected regional election.

Speaking at a press conference in Yaounde on Monday, Kamto announced what MRC militants term the last phase of their resistance.

“If the time has come, then it has come. Our struggle is moving towards its final phase”, he said.

President Biya, Kamto went on, “has governed Cameroon through contempt and terror for almost 40 years.”

Any attempt to organise elections under such conditions, he warned, will be met by a call for Nationwide demonstrations to demand the departure of Paul Biya.

The MRC leader is not new to crowds.

In February, he pulled a mammoth crowd at a rally in Paris, France. A bigger crowd welcomed him in Douala when he returned.

The MRC maintains its rejection of the 2018 presidential elections where Kamto emerged runner up, with the incumbent, President Biya retaining the seat.