National Assembly : Permanent Configuration Now Known
- Par Emmanuel
- 14 avril 2020 13:11
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Cameroon’s National Assembly for the just started 10th legislative period has remarkable and historic changes in terms of political party representation, ages, change of political fortunes for some parties in certain localities and gender representation.
In terms of the new political landscape, the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) has not only maintained the leading position but has improved its score from that of the ninth legislative period. The party has finally won 152 out of the 180 seats in the National Assembly up from 148 in the ninth legislative period. History in the CPDM victory is that it has almost dislodged the Social Democratic Front (SDF) from the North West Region. The CPDM won 18 out of the 20 seats in the region up from seven in the last legislative period. The CPDM also won all the 15 seats in the South West Region taking the lone seat in Kumba that SDF used to control. The Social Democratic Front (SDF) for the first time since it started participating in legislative elections in 1997 has no Parliamentary Group. The party has finally just won five seats, two in Boyo Constituency of the North West Region and three in the Littoral Region. It has registered a drop by13 MPs from the 18 it had in the ninth legislative period.
New comers such as the Cameroon Party for National Reconciliation (PCRN), Cameroon National Salvation Front (FSNC) and the Union of Social Movements (UMS) have come in to upset the traditional status quo. The Cameroon Party for National Reconciliation won five seats, dislodging the Union des populations du Cameroun (UPC) and CPDM from the Nyong et Kelle Constituency in the Centre Region. PCRN occupies the third position in the 10th legislative period of the National Assembly just as the SDF each of them having won five seats. The Cameroon National Salvation Front (FSNC) has three seats in the Northern part of the country, w...
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