The Union for Change 2025 will not boycott the upcoming legislative and municipal elections in Cameroon. The platform carries an ambition to win the majority of seats in the National Assembly, paving the way for the implementation of reforms.
The upcoming local and legislative elections, like the last presidential election, are capturing the attention of the Union for Change 2025. The platform, which claims to represent about sixty political parties and civil society associations, does not intend to boycott the elections. Instead, it sets objectives to be achieved before and at the end of the electoral events, which are yet to be specified by the expected convocation of the electorate.
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The platform, having taken note of the decision to boycott the said elections by the FSNC party, whose candidate it supported in the presidential election, is committed to presenting candidates to face the ruling RDPC party. To this end, it plans to present “consensus lists” of candidates in the 360 communes for the municipal elections and in the 58 departments for the legislative elections. In order to form these lists, the UPC2025 is opening the reception of candidacies from those who wish to run under its banner. Militants of political parties that are members of the coalition, militants of non-member parties, and personalities from civil society can apply. The only condition the coalition imposes is adherence to its Program of Transition and Refoundation.
The platform is preparing with the aim of winning the elections with a 2/3 majority in the National Assembly, which has been occupied since the legislative elections of February 9, 2020, by 152 Rdpc deputies out of 180. With this victory, the UPC2025 will have obtained the power to carry out the reforms planned in its program. Believing it won the presidential election of October 12 through the “consensus candidate” Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the coalition wants to repeat its performance and continue the fight to reclaim the “victory stolen in the presidential election.”
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However, achieving these objectives will not be easy in a context where opposition actors and parties are at odds with each other. They call for mobilization and pooling of resources for the so-called victory of the people. But they end up going to the elections in scattered ranks. The call from the UPC2025 joins that of the Les Libérateurs party, which has already called for the mobilization of the opposition for the upcoming elections.
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