Elections Cameroon releases provisional voters registers amid speculation of an early parliamentary and presidential elections

Since the start of this week, Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, has made available provisional electoral registers in all its sub-divisional branches. A nationwide campaign which has been launched simultaneously through mainstream media, bill-posting and banners in major road junctions, calls on the public, political parties and stakeholders to consult the registers in order to identify irregularities such as errors, omissions as well as names of dead persons or persons having lost their capacity to be voters. 

There are signals from Etoudi that President Biya intends to call early parliamentary and presidential elections to guarantee his continued stay in power beyond 2018. In a statement issued to the press yesterday, November 19, 2015, the Regional Delegate of ELECAM for the Centre Region, Joséphine Angèle Essama, said the operation that runs till November 20, 2015 aims at cleaning the voters’ registers before voters’ cards are produced. The publication of the provisional voters’ registers is a major indication that the ruling CPDM may surprise Cameroonians even before 2018.