Legislative, Municipal Elections : Electors Vote On February 9, 2020

Cameroonians of voting age who effectively registered on the electoral lists will go to the polls on February 9, 2020 to choose the country’s 180 Members of Parliament and municipal councillors in the 360 councils. This is the strength of a Presidential decree signed yesterday November 10, 2019 to convene the electorate for the election of Members of Parliament and Municipal Councillors. The decree specifies that, “voting shall start at 8 am and end at 6 pm.”
With the Presidential outing, Members of Parliament who begin their traditional November session dedicated principally for the examining of the State budget for the 2020 fiscal year, will be doing so for the last time in the elapsing ninth legislature. The current team of Members of Parliament was voted into office in the election of September 30, 2013 and their terms of office had been extended twice. Any such further extension would have warranted an act of Parliament. This will not be the case. 
As per the electoral code in its Chapter V, Section 86 (2), “No less than 90 (ninety) days shall elapse between the date of publication of the convening decree and the day of the election.” President Paul Biya therefore respected, to the letter, the law as exactly 90 days separate November 10, 2019 and February 9, 2020. 
The same electoral code specifies that “the campaign shall open on the...