Registration of Electors : ELECAM Mobilises, Clarifies Procedure

Cameroon’s elections institution, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) is getting set for the expected first-ever election of regional councillors in the country.
Besides the material organization, ELECAM is in charge of the registration of electors who are municipal councillors and traditional rulers. Some municipal councillors who spoke to Cameroon Tribune attest that they had already forwarded files for their registration procedure to the council branches of ELECAM. The files have to be forwarded to the head office for scrutiny and publication of the lists of electors at the appropriate time.
Sources at the ELECAM head office in Yaounde say all preparations are taking place for the institution to successfully organise the election whenever the President of the Republic, Paul Biya convenes electors to the polls. The sources indicate that all electors to vote regional councillors must first of all have their names enrolled in the general voters’ lists. As for municipal councillors, it is just automatic that they qualify as electors in the regional council elections, considering that they could not have been voted municipal councillors without having been registered in the electoral register. For traditional rulers, ELECAM officials say, they must first of all get their names enrolled in the voters’ lists whose revision period will end this August 31, 2020 before qualifying as electors and/ or candidates in the regional council election. At the appointed time, the names of the electors will just be extracted from the electoral registers. There are already growing activities ahead of the conv...