Voters Registration : Political Parties Hardly Perceptible

After the twin election of Members of the National Assembly and municipal councilors on February 9, 2020, the elections organizing institution in Cameroon, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), re-launched the revision of the electoral registers on April 9, 2020.
Political parties that are the main beneficiaries in the electoral process as elections constitute the gate way to get to power are not really perceptible on the field with the hitherto mobilization for the registration operation. Council branches of Elections Cameroon in charge of registering potential voters are on their part, mobilized for the registration operation   despite the current coronavirus pandemic health crisis. The Yaounde III Council branch of ELECAM is one of those in which all measures have been taken to register potential voters while respecting the restrictive measures put in place to fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ELECAM Council branch head, Hélène Onana Ngono who was effectively at work on Monday, August 3, 2020 told Cameroon Tribune that they work every day with limited staff considering that the Director General of Elections at ELECAM, Erik Essousse instructed rotation between workers to limit the chances of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. As for voters registration proper, she said, there is no affluence partly because of the COVID-19 ¨pandemic and also because the twin legislative and municipal elections just took place. Hélène Onana Ngono disclosed that there are some weeks in which they would register two or three potential voters and others in which no potential voter would come. The upcoming election in Cameroon is the regional council election whose voting is through indirect suffrage considering that the electoral college are municipal councilors and traditional rulers.
In the Yaounde II and Yaounde VI Council branches of ELECAM, the staff were also present ready to register potential voters. The officia...