The president of the Cameroonian Party for National Reconciliation is against disqualifying a political opponent by accusations of cronyism with the regime. Cabral Libii promotes investment on the ground.
The next legislative and municipal elections will take place in Cameroon, barring any schedule changes, in 2027. With a view to the opposition’s victory in these various polls through which the people will choose their representatives in municipal councils and the National Assembly, Cabral Libii advocates listening to the people who have the final say. The Constitution has vested them with full sovereignty. They are capable of deciding their destiny to shift the current balance of power on the ground between the opposition and the ruling party.
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To achieve this, the politician recalls in a publication dated June 1st that electoral victory is the combination of certain factors. These include the deployment of political parties on the ground, the proximity of leaders and parties to voters, ideas, massive voting, vote monitoring, community backup. “This is the essential,” the deputy indicates in his publication.
The Pcrn leader insists on these elements to show that proximity or cronyism with the ruling regime cannot be an objective criterion by which a candidate or political party should be discredited with the electorate. Especially since the candidates who placed second in the 2018 and 2025 presidential elections are former ministers who worked within the regime and resigned.
But the people gave them votes regardless of their history with the regime. Likewise, the politician illustrates his remarks with the case of the National Union for Democracy and Progress (Undp), a party that came second in the National Assembly following the 2020 legislative elections, while it was still allied with the Rpdc, the ruling party.
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Cabral Libii thus speaks to deconstruct the narrative of some opponents and their supporters who try to discredit him with the people by using the argument that he is “a pawn of the regime.” A regime that, according to them, he helps to keep in power since the 2018 presidential election and especially after the October 12, 2025 election. An accusation that reinforces the reasons why voices have been raised within some parties since 2017 to chant slogans like “Anything but Cabral, Better we all lose” or “it’s spoiling, it’s spoiling.”
A few months before the next elections, the politician once again shows the path to victory for the opposition, which is more than ever expected by at least 35% of the national electorate and the diaspora to take the leading positions in assemblies.
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