National Assembly : Ordinance, MPs Mandate Prolongation Bills Tabled

Two bills were on July 5, 2024 tabled at the National Assembly for scrutiny by the law makers. They include the ordinance of June 20, 2024 to amend and supplement some provisions of December 19, 2023 Finance Law of the Republic of Cameroon for the 2024 financial year, and the bill to extend the term of office of Members of the National Assembly. House Speaker, Cavaye Yeguie Djibril chaired the plenary sitting of July 5, 2024 in which the two legal instruments were tabled. He also chaired the Chairman’s Conference where the documents were judged admissible. 
In essence, the mandate of the MPs of the 10th legislature period began in March 2020 and was due to end in March 2025. The legal instrument which was examined by the Constitutional Laws Committee proposes an extension of the term of office of Members of the National Assembly to March 30, 2026, that is an additional one year. Explanatory notes of the document states that it was prepared pursuant to the provisions of Article 15(4) of the Constitution which stipulates that "In case of serious crisis, or where circumstances so warrant, the President of the Republic may, after consultation with the President of the Constitutional Council and Bureaux of the National Assembly and the Senate, request the National Assembly to decide, by a law, to extend or abridge its term of office." It further argues that the extension is to lighten the electoral calendar which previews four elections in 2025 namely the election of Members of the National Assembly, Municipal Councillors, Regional Councillors and Presidential election. It further justifies that apart from the election of Regional Councillors, the other elections, which are direct suffrage, require the deployment of substan...