Maurice Kamo, president of the MRC, accuses ELECAM of pre-electoral fraud during registration on the electoral lists in Cameroon. The opponent denounces the stagnation in the number of registered voters for several years, despite strong citizen mobilization. Maurice Kamo points out the opacity of ELECAM and its maneuvers to limit the number of registrations. The head of the MRC encourages Cameroonians to register massively and to denounce any obstacle to their registration to make their voice heard at the polls.
STATEMENT ON ELECAM’S PRE-ELECTION FRAUD DURING REGISTRATION ON THE ELECTORAL LIST
On March 28, 2024, during the first ordinary session of its Electoral Council, ELECAM announced the registration of 144,817 new voters in the first quarter of this year.
A priori we could welcome this figure, which brings the number of registered voters in Cameroon to 7.5 million. In truth, this is a derisory figure compared to the current Cameroonian population estimated at 30 million inhabitants, and the number of potential voters estimated at 15 million. But this would mean losing sight of all the maneuvers of ELECAM to avoid a significant increase in the number of people registered on the electoral lists. For about ten years, ELECAM has made the stagnation of the electorate the first milestone of massive electoral fraud and the victory of the CPDM in all elections. The regime fears the massive registrations that every objective observer can see across the country, in particular since the beginning of 2024. Indeed, the mobilization for registrations on the electoral lists initiated by the MRC is general and observable on the throughout the national territory and in the diaspora. It clearly indicates the desire of Cameroonians to finally turn the page on the CPDM regime at the polls and in peace in 2025. Therefore, to claim that only 144,817 new voters would have been registered in the first quarter of 2024 is to make fun of the Cameroonian and provocative. The MRC denounces this gross manipulation by ELECAM on the number of voters registered for several years, in particular in 2023 and 2024, to stick only to these two most recent years. This is a clear and unacceptable electoral fraud which the Cameroonian people do not accept. Is it necessary to recall that ELECAM is essentially composed of activists and former activists not freed from the RDPC who, through their partisan acts, have demonstrated their inability to act objectively, in accordance with the law and in the interest of the Republic and democracy in our country?
In violation of the electoral law which requires ELECAM to
publish the national list of voters on December 30 of each year, the general director of ELECAM stubbornly refuses to make the said list public, the interest in electoral transparency of which escapes no one. The courts have been seized by various political actors to force him to do so, but the magistrates are taking their time.
Everything therefore happens as if ELECAM did not want there to be more Cameroonians registered on the electoral lists, its counter oscillating between 7 million and 7.5 million registered voters since 2012. Otherwise, how can we explain the sudden breakdowns and repeated registration kits regularly denounced by our activists, the media and Cameroonians in the diaspora? It seems that the 150 billion FCFA budget approved by the Electoral Council as part of the 2024/2025 strategic plan would ultimately only serve to maintain the comfort of the members of this body and not to provide ELECAM with the necessary equipment. to fulfill its mission.
The MRC firmly condemns all these base maneuvers by the leaders of ELECAM, and holds them responsible in advance for anything that happens because of their desire to once again distort both the progress and the results of the next elections in our country. The MRC would like to point out that it will never again allow its victory in an election to be stolen. The MRC congratulates and once again encourages Cameroonians to register in even greater numbers on the electoral lists. It invites all citizens or groups of citizens who could be confronted with an obstacle aimed at discouraging them in their efforts to register on the electoral lists (intimidation from any authority, a traditional or religious leader, a party activist, hate speech, absence of kits or broken kits, etc.) to film the evidence and publish it on social networks as a denunciation.
I urge every citizen not only to register, but also to call their loved ones, colleagues, friends, etc. to do the same, so that together, at the ballot box and in peace, we finally send the old CPDM regime and its allies into retirement.
Done in Yaoundé on April 7, 2024
The National President, Professor Maurice KAMTO, candidate of the MRC and the APC in the presidential election of 2025 or before
