Cameroon`s repressive regime will send in the next 10 months a dramatic message to the International community over its determination to face down any challenge to its authority.
October 2011, there will be a presidential election with Paul Biya as candidate. The formal opposition in Cameroon has been wipe out from the last parliamentary elections and left with fewer seats in the house of parliament.
The Cameroon People Democratic Movement, CPDM, the party that has the full majority in the parliament and that runs the country with a less power sharing with a small and insignificant group of coalition political parties will be dictating his way to others.
It is still unclear whether there will be a kind of strong pressure on President Paul Biya after 28 years in power in Cameroon and with no designated successor at the moment, to embrace some democratisation.
They will do everything to show the world that the next presidential election will be fair and credible.
Cameroon under Paul Biya now has joined the ranks of world`s most autocratic countries. Cameroon now is a dictatorship. The last parliamentary election was widely seen as a dry run for the next year`s presidential elections, when the 78 year old Biya might be forced to step down..
Paul Biya who is believed to hide a serious heart condition problem has ruled Cameroon for almost three decades and has remain a close ally for the west, despite reports of systematic human rights abuses at the hands of his extensive security apparatus, and slow progress on political reform..
As the end of the year is looming, attention will now turn to the regime insiders jockeying for position to replace Biya, and there is no name in the lead officially and the head of the armed forces could take over the country.
It is a possibility at the moment just in case they have to retain a strong influence over the process of selecting Cameroon`s next president. The CPDM now is a divided political party with neoliberals, economic reformists, political reformists, modernists all powerless and Biya as a real the real master is still there, like a procrastinator.
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