The Secretary General of the Central Committee of Democratic gathering of the Cameroonian people (RDPC) chaired a meeting of party executives in the Central region on September 21, 2023. Members of government and similar, mission managers, heads of permanent departmental and municipal delegations, municipal elected officials, regional councilors, parliamentarians and their deputies, etc. were all invited to these meetings whose aim is to “ encourage those responsible to be ready for the next deadlines », indicated Jean Nkuété, the head of the administration of the ruling party. This exercise will be repeated in the ten regions of the country. At each stage, training seminars are planned against the backdrop of “presidential” instructions for future events. Jean Nkuété was not clear enough, but we easily understand that the ruling party is already working on the upcoming presidential election
The end of the current mandate of the President of the Republic is scheduled for 2025. Two years before the end, the subject is already of great concern to Cameroonians. In the staffs of the different political parties, we have our heads there. This other election is all the more important as the presidential chair should change occupants, after 43 years of continuous power. Paul Biya will then be 92 years old; and since the last electoral coronation, the man of November 6, 1982 has attracted all the attention. Damaged by age, the man who was known to be very inclined to long stays abroad, particularly in Switzerland, has become very much a homebody. Persecuted by an extremist movement established in Europe called Brigade anti-sardinard (BAS), the Cameroonian president and his delegation suffered violent demonstrations during his stays in 2019 in this country where he was accustomed to spending the rest of his vacation. Also, the rare visits abroad and even his public outings at home revealed a weakened man.
Uncertainties
As a result, the predictions that the successor ofAhmadou Ahidjo represents itself in 2025 are slim. If in front It’s John Fru who for a long time occupied second place in the presidential elections is no longer in this world, and that Maurice Kamto who won this place during the 2018 presidential election, does not yet have any real chances of constituting a valid candidacy due to the fact that his party does not have any elected representatives as provided for in the Electoral Code, the fact remains that even at within the Rdpc, there is still uncertainty. The Lion man cut off the heads which rushed to rise. Today, the trench warfare going on within the party ranks is raging. The party texts providing that “ the national president is the party’s natural candidate in the presidential election “. So, Paul Biya remains the party’s candidate in the next election. In the meantime, nature has decimated at the top of the party, to the point that the national president remains almost the only member of the executive.
But before 2025, the institutions of the Republic should be renewed, namely the municipal councils, the regional councils, the National Assembly and the Senate. A turnover which should prepare the ground for the final assault of 2025.
This is why the current foundations are of particular interest for the Rdpc itself. Especially since if he whispers that the goal is to prepare the ground for the next party Congress which should take place before the next presidential election, it is expected internally that the horizon will clear up for the dolphin that Paul Biya will have chosen. Even if the man had already indicated during an interview on France 24 that “ there is no runner-up in democracy » ; and “ the idea of a dolphin comes from the monarchy “. Still, the man who succeeded during his magisterium, in being the only one to make and undo destinies, should set out to whistle the end of recreation which has given free rein to internal struggles and regulations. of accounts in his share
