Senatorial Election: Hitch-free Measures Adopted At ELECAM

All necessary dispositions have been put in place to ensure that every file received from political parties reach the Electoral Board before the midnight deadline today.

The allocated 15 (fifteen) days for political parties to deposit their lists for the March 25, 2018 Senatorial election elapses today at midnight. In that perspective, several procedures have been put in place by Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, to cope with the anticipated last minute submission by parties still in the compilation process.

Amongst the measures are communication and installation of adequate election equipment to ensure that every list deposited at any regional branch office of ELECAM or its headquarters in Yaounde reaches the Electoral Board before today’s midnight for subsequent scrutiny.

Pursuant to Section 164 (1) of the Electoral Code, candidates shall within 15 (fifteen) days from the convening of the electorate, be made out in nomination paper in triplicate, bearing the legalized signature of candidates. Sub 2 of the same section further specifies that “such nomination paper shall be submitted and registered against a receipt, at the General Directorate of Elections or at the divisional branch of Elections Cameroon of the constituency concerned.

A copy thereof shall immediately be sent to the Constitutional Council by the candidate or his representative, against acknowledgment of receipt.” In recognition to this, immediately after the convening of the Electoral College by the President of the Republic on February 7, 2018, the Directorate General of Elections set up a commission in charge of the receipt and onward ...