Towards Constitutional Revision:

 CPDM MPs to meet tomorrow at Palais des Congres

A meeting of CPDM Senators and Members of National Assembly has been convened for tomorrow Tuesday, 22 March 2016, at the party secretariat situated at the Yaounde Conference Centre. Called by the SG of the Central Committee of the CPDM party, Jean Kuete, the agenda of the meeting was not immediately disclosed, we learnt.

                But a source at the CPDM headquarters told The Median that the meeting has been convened at the instance of the president of the CPDM party, Paul Biya, who wants the CPDM MPs to be briefed on his anticipated election agenda and the inevitable support he needs from them, especially as he would have to change the constitution to make the very risky project to be possible.

                “I was only informed that we have been convened to meet at the party headquarters on Tuesday; but i was not told the reason for the meeting. I however, suspect it has to do with the president’s project to review the constitution and call anticipated presidential elections,” said a CPDM MP who also confirmed the convening of the crucial meeting to us.

                It is expected that during the meeting, the CPDM MPs would be given guidelines and instructions they must respect when the time comes. They would also be reminded that they have to always toe the party lines at all times and avoid any divergent gesticulations that may embarrass the president.

                Political pundits also speculate that the president will have to give some interesting financial concessions to the MPs just in a bid to seduce them to endorse his plan.

                It should be recalled that upon his return from a short private stay in Switzerland last Sunday, 13 March 2016, President Biya granted three audiences at the VIP lounge of the Nsimalen airport and the longest of these audiences was with the SG of the CPDM party, Jean Kuete, who used the occasion to present some important documents to his boss.

                Jean Kuete later on Tuesday, 15 March 2016, convened a meeting of CPDM Senators and Members of Assembly at the party headquarters here. Though the discussions at the meeting did not filter out, it however emerged from very impeachable sources that the meeting had to do with the president’s instructions concerning the election of the members of bureau of the senate and National Assembly. It was no surprise therefore that Marcel Niat and CavayeYegueiDjibril were reelected.

                But it is believed that the many documents that Jean Kuete presented to president Biya at the airport did not only concern the parliament bureaux. Analysts say the documents also had to do with the possible convening in the near future  of a congress of the CPDM party to address the issue of Biya’s continuity at the helm of the party and the state, apart from the other issues which Sultan Ibrahim MbomboNjoya evoked during the grand rally of CPDM supporters in Bafoussam recently.

                But be it as it may, the outcome of the CPDM Senators and N.A. members will get to the public domain before long, hopefully.