9 February Twin Elections:

Littoral to Witness Stiffest Competition with 15 Parties Contesting for 11 Seats

-Elecam has unveiled a map showing list and distribution of voters, number and distribution of competing political parties, and distribution of polling stations throughout the national territory.

By Mercy Neba in Yaounde

The elections management body Elecam, has put at the disposal of major actors in the electoral process - political parties, candidates, media, voters etc all the information they need to guide them to go about the election process without pain.

CPDM Littoral boss, Laurent Esso

                Elecam says there are presently 6.85 million (six million eight hundred and five thousand two hundred and forty) duly registered voters in the country, as of 30 December 2019.

                It says the voters will rally behind the 32 parties (for legislative) and 38 parties (for municipal) that will compete in the 9 February twin elections.

                All the political parties would have their ballot papers in all the 26.270 polling stations scattered all over the national territory.

                It should be noted that unlike for the eight other regions, the two Anglophone regions (NW & SW) will have a special distribution pattern of polling stations. Here many polling stations would be grouped in one locality where the security of voters and polling officers is guaranteed.

                Extrapolation from the electoral map shows for instance that the stiffest competition would be in the Littoral where 15 political parties would be competing for the 11 seats in the National assembly. In the West region 9 political parties will compete for the 26 Parliamentary seats and 40 Councils, while in the Centre, 9 political parties will compete for the 28 parliamentary seats and 70 councils.

                Campaigns for the elections kicked off nationwide on Saturday 25 January. The campaigns will run for 2 weeks, until Saturday 8 February.

                Voting proper will start at 8 am on Sunday 9 February and will close at 6pm same day.