CAMEROON: Ruling party wins majority in re-run
Cameroon's ruling party won 16 out of 17 seats in parliamentary re-elections held on Sunday, after irregularities in the original poll in June, Cameroon Radio and Television reported on Tuesday.
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CAMEROON: Ruling party wins majority in re-run
ABIDJAN, 18 September (IRIN) - Cameroon's ruling party won 16 out of 17 seats in parliamentary re-elections held on Sunday, after irregularities in the original poll in June, Cameroon Radio and Television reported on Tuesday.
Provisional results indicated that the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) party won all the seats except the Kumba urban constituency, which was taken by the Social Democratic Front (SDF), the national broadcaster reported.
The Supreme Court will officially proclaim the results after the votes have been recounted by the national votes counting committee, in accordance with the constitution, CRTV added.
Members of the national votes counting commission had begun meeting in the capital, Yaounde, to conduct the final count but have up to 20 days from Sunday to complete it, according to the report.
Cameroon's Supreme Court ordered fresh legislative elections in nine constituencies, with a total of 17 seats, because of irregularities during parliamentary polls held on 30 June.
In those polls, the CPDM increased its share of seats in parliament from 116 to 133. The SDF secured 21 seats, down from the 43 it previously held.
Nineteen of the SDF's seats were in its traditional stronghold, the English-speaking Northwest Province.
The Democratic Union of Cameroon (UDC) retained five seats in the June elections, all of them in Noun, the home district of party president Adamou Ndam Njoya.
The Cameroon Peoples' Union (UPC) increased its tally of parliamentary seats one to three, while two other small parties each lost the single seat they had in parliament.
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