The Senate and the National Assembly will convene for an ordinary session on March 10, during which the bureaus of the different chambers will be renewed.
Deputies and senators will return to their respective hemicycles on March 10, 2026, for the start of the first ordinary session of the legislative year. A decree from the Senate bureau dated February 05, 2026, convenes the upper house for the start of the session at 4 p.m. Following the customs of the Cameroonian parliament, the session begins on the same day at the National Assembly at 11 a.m. The 30-day session, which opens in a month, will be primarily dedicated to the renewal of the bureaus of the two parliamentary institutions, as their mandates have expired.
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The President of the Senate, Marcel Niat Njifenji, who has been president of the Senate bureau since 2013, is undoubtedly seeking another term at the head of the institution. In recent times, although he has mostly been represented by the first vice-president of the Senate, he has been active and is often seen from time to time. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, president of the National Assembly since 1992, was in the news at the beginning of the year due to his noticeable absence from the New Year’s greetings ceremonies. Without any communication from him or his office regarding the reasons, suspicions about his health converged. However, he is undoubtedly, like in previous years, also seeking a new term at the head of the National Assembly.
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While waiting for things to become clearer, the session is announced at a time when public opinion awaits the convocation of the electoral body for the legislative and municipal elections. Elections at the end of which the National Assembly will be entirely renewed. It has lost nearly twenty members since the beginning of the legislature, which runs until March 30, thanks to the law of July 2024 extending the term of deputies. Among these deceased deputies is the oldest member, Laurentine Koa Mfegue. The March session will see a new oldest member who will preside over the provisional bureau, which will lead the election of the new definitive bureau that can hold government members accountable and continue to pass laws.
