The Electoral Commission of Cameroon (Elecam) has set up a single national electoral commission to count the final votes of the presidential election held on October 12.
The commission’s chairman, Dr. Enow Egbe, who announced this said the commission is responsible for verifying all regional votes for the official declaration of results.
It is one of the final stages of the presidential election process.
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The commission’s chairman added that the results will be returned and sent to the National Constitutional Committee, which will have until October 26 to declare the results.
The commission is also expected to hold a meeting to resolve any electoral disputes after the declaration of the presidential election results.
According to a resolution signed by the head of the electoral commission, the national electoral commission includes judges, government representatives, Cameroonian electoral commissioners and representatives of 12 candidates for the October 12, 2025 election.
Eight million voters took part in the election to choose a new president from among ten candidates running for the highest office in the country including the incumbent President Paul Biya, who has been in power for four decades.
The presidential election comes amid rising prices, youth unemployment, security challenges, corruption, and a lack of social services.
GLOBAL TRACKER recalled that the opposition leader Maurice Kamto has been excluded from the list of the presidential election amid allegations of wrong doing in selecting the candidates.
Only 13 of the 83 names submitted to the country’s electoral body Elecam were accepted.
Kamto came second in the 2018 elections amid allegations of fraud. He has not yet commented on the decision.
President Paul Biya, 92, the world’s oldest president, was included on the list and will seek an eighth term in office.
Defying calls to step down, he says he still has a lot to offer Cameroonians despite being in power for nearly 43 years.
Biya will be challenged by two former allies, Issa Tchiroma Bakary and Bello Bouba Maigari, who both come from the vote-rich north of the country.