Scheduled for October 2025, the presidential election in Cameroon is already arousing great interest not only for the Cameroonian political class but also for citizens. Indeed, twelve months before the 2025 presidential election, many changes are taking place on the political scene, which could be decisive for the outcome of the upcoming election. In the streets of towns and villages in Cameroon, we wonder if Cameroon will finally see a change of direction after these elections, especially since until now we have observed a dispersion of the opposition, which refuses to a union which could be saving in the face of the electoral war machine of the party in power for several decades.
With the applications that have been coming from everywhere for several months now, coming from the Cameroonian opposition, it is curious to note that to date the opposition has not yet decided on its commitment to winning the presidential election in Cameroon. All wanting to be the new tenant of the Palais de L’Unité. Cabral to Libya came third during the last presidential election with the Cameroonian Party for National Reconciliation (PRCN), the party he has led since 2019 and whose presidency was confirmed to him by the Cameroonian justice system on the case which opposed him to the president of honor Robert Kona, the “ Cameroonian Macron » would therefore still be a candidate for the 2025 election as he demonstrates on the sets where he is invited and of course on social networks (X, Facebook).
An opposition still dispersed
Officially arriving second in the 2018 presidential election, Maurice Kamto who claimed victory against the President Paul Biya almost not being able to run in the 2025 election because of the boycott organized by him of the legislative and municipal elections of his party the Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon (MRC), which automatically eliminated him from the race towards the palace of ‘Studied. But thanks to the party of Mr. Jean Michel Nintcheu, president of the Political Alliance for Change (APC), Maurice Kamto was presented as the only opposition candidate calling on other parties to support this candidacy, despite the fact that Territorial Administration Minister Paul Atanga Nji declared the APC and another opposition coalition as clandestine.
If Maurice Kamto was presented as the sole opposition candidate for the 2025 election, on September 28, 2024, another tenor of Cameroonian politics was also dubbed as the sole opposition candidate, in the person of former President of the Bar Akere Muna, under the leadership of the UNIVERS political party of Professor Nkou Mvondo (former support of candidate Cabral Libii) and a group of political parties including a faction heir to the oldest Cameroonian political party, the UPC, and some social organizations civil.
The Social Democracy Front (SDF) for its part, if it wishes, will go to the elections for the first time without its late founder. It’s John Fru of late memory: the deputy Joshua Osih who recently took the helm of the party, had already represented it in the 2018 Presidential election where he officially came fourth. Formerly among the tenors of the Cameroonian political scene after having given the Biya regime a cold sweat in 1992, the SDF has never again managed to go beyond 20% of the votes in the presidential election. With only 5 deputies for the current legislature, we wonder if this party will still be able to inspire fear for a national election.
RDPC 2025: Franck Biya or Paul Biya?
The Democratic Rally of the Cameroonian People (RDPC) has a new element which is creating a stir internally and especially on the national and international scene. Franck Emmanuel Biya, eldest son of the Cameroonian President, recently received the card of the party that his father has led since its creation in 1985. For several years now, rumors have been rife about his presidential ambitions, even if he himself has not said a word on the subject , considering his father as the “ natural leader of the party and requesting the right of reserve on political subjects. But it is completely normal for Cameroonians to seek to know if the attribution of this party card will make him a likely presidential candidate, on behalf of the ruling party. We will probably have to wait for the next CPDM congress, the last of which was held in 2011, to rule on the subject.
Paul Biya does he intend on this occasion to abandon the head of the party, and therefore according to the current regulations of this formation, the candidacy for head of state? For the moment the suspense is maintained on this side but it is not surprising, when we know the Cameroonian leader is mysterious about his present and future actions. Moreover, when asked in 2022 about his ambitions for 2025, he replied “ When this (current) mandate comes to an end, you will be informed if I stay (at the palace) or if I go to the village” eyes are therefore nevertheless turned towards the one who, for several days already, has been on a private stay near Switzerland, marking his absence the 73e United Nations General Assembly and the 19th Francophonie Summit. A double absence which did not fail to revive speculation about his state of health and therefore his ability to lead a campaign.
The risk of a division of the country
In addition to all this factual information on the Cameroonian political scene, it is regrettable the lack of interest among young citizens in political debate. And it is worrying to see again and again a division of the opposition. If everyone wants to succeed Paul Biya at the Etoudi Palace, none seems ready to line up behind a common candidacy, which would be the best way to consider an alternation at the head of Cameroon… This predicts a long work ahead, but no less urgent, as the challenges are enormous in Cameroon, particularly and primarily the end of the so-called NOSO (Northwest/Southwest) crisis, a formidable factor in dividing the country.
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