Members of the Electoral Board of Elections Cameroon, ELECAM met on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 to examine files that the Supreme Court sitting in for the Constitutional Council ordered ELECAM to receive and to proceed to the replacement of candidates who were deemed ineligible on some candidacy lists. They equally examined the list of the Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon, MRC of Professor Maurice Kamto. The Constitutional Council also asked the Director General of Elections to receive MRC candidature files and forward to the Electoral Board for examination.
The Chairman of the Electoral Board of ELECAM, Dr Fonkam Azu'u Samuel disclosed the objectives of the board meeting to reporters shortly before it started at the Yaounde Mont Fébe Hotel. The Council in its verdict in the pre-electoral petitions relating to the rejection of candidacy lists for the September 30, 2013 legislative election, accepted the hitherto rejected lists of the National Alliance for Democracy and Progress, NADP and the Block for the Reconstruction and Economic Independence of Cameroon, BRIC in the Mayo-Tsanaga constituency in the Far North Region. It ordered that ineligible candidates on the lists of the parties due to age be replaced. The Supreme Court sitting in for the Constitutional Council also ordered ELECAM to receive and examine without delay MRC candidacy files in the Mfoundi, Upper Plateau, Bamboutos and Wouri East constituencies.
Dr Fonkam Azu'u said the ELECAM board meeting, holding as of right after that of August 2, 2013 had to equally serve as an occasion for members to assess the level of material preparations for the September 30 twin elections. He said the Director General of Elections, Mohaman Sani Tanimou, "shall make an appraisal of the electoral material that have already been received." Some of the imported material was recently received by the Director General of Elections at the Yaounde Military Airbase. In the days ahead, the Chairman of the Electoral Board, Fonkam Azu'u further disclosed, "the Electoral Board itself will be proceeding to the Military Airbase and some printing houses in the capital, Yaounde to see the state of preparedness of these institutions."
