Splits in the Coalition government in Cameroon will be wider than ever regardless of the outcome of the next presidential election, one of the special advisor of the most senior acting cabinet minister admitted yesterday.
The country must seize this golden opportunity during the next presidential election to send a firm message to this coalition government that is inflicting pain on ordinary people while self-evidently enjoying the status of high office.
After visiting many constituencies around the country, he said that the acrimonious campaigns had amplified the differences between the main party, the Cameroon People Democratic Movement (CPDM) and those that form the coalition.
As if to illustrate the point, Bello Bouba Maigari, leader of the of the National Union for Progress and Democracy and actual transport minister in the coalition government and Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the communication minister and leader of his own political party have confronted their colleagues from the main party over different issues also over the Cpdm conservatives`personalised campaign for the next presidential election.
Sources described that members of the main party often send the wrong campaign message to their electorate in their constituencies without having to discuss with them first of what messages are they going to send to people around and also what solutions for their problems are they going to provide.
On the ground some members of the government often urge voters to size the historic chance to change Cameroon`s future and dimension and even call on voters to hammer the party in coalition and give the main party the vote. And this is why parties in coalition government are not very happy.
Amadou Ali, who is the most senior cabinet minister in the government and acting justice minister once suggested that if the next presidential election will dramatize or amplify the fact this coalition government is composed of different parties and the Cpdm is the progressive party in this arrangement, i don`t think that is a bad thing in the long run.Coalition
But other parties in the coalition are not really happy by the way the main party is acting and conducting his election campaign without informing members of their intention and action.It is wrong what they are doing said, one of the special advisor of the justice minister, Amadou Ali.
The Cpdm is viewed as a progressive and also a conservative political party by those in coalition and they said that it will be difficult to see any change happening while they are still in power and holding the majority of seats in the Parliament.
The polls predicts a win for the Cpdm but supporters of the change and the total change of the regime in Cameroon say they could still clinch it. There is an anti-conservative majority underground in Cameroon that is afraid of any kind of retaliation from authorities in case they express what they really want.Only a fairer election will make that more likely to be expressed.
But a source at the presidency said that there will be no reason to expect the coalition government to fall apart over after the next presidential election and the Cpdm is looking to gain more council seats during the election.
The country must seize this golden opportunity during the next presidential election to send a firm message to this coalition government that is inflicting pain on ordinary people while self-evidently enjoying the status of high office.
After visiting many constituencies around the country, he said that the acrimonious campaigns had amplified the differences between the main party, the Cameroon People Democratic Movement (CPDM) and those that form the coalition.
Sources described that members of the main party often send the wrong campaign message to their electorate in their constituencies without having to discuss with them first of what messages are they going to send to people around and also what solutions for their problems are they going to provide.
On the ground some members of the government often urge voters to size the historic chance to change Cameroon`s future and dimension and even call on voters to hammer the party in coalition and give the main party the vote. And this is why parties in coalition government are not very happy.
Amadou Ali, who is the most senior cabinet minister in the government and acting justice minister once suggested that if the next presidential election will dramatize or amplify the fact this coalition government is composed of different parties and the Cpdm is the progressive party in this arrangement, i don`t think that is a bad thing in the long run.Coalition
But other parties in the coalition are not really happy by the way the main party is acting and conducting his election campaign without informing members of their intention and action.It is wrong what they are doing said, one of the special advisor of the justice minister, Amadou Ali.
The Cpdm is viewed as a progressive and also a conservative political party by those in coalition and they said that it will be difficult to see any change happening while they are still in power and holding the majority of seats in the Parliament.
The polls predicts a win for the Cpdm but supporters of the change and the total change of the regime in Cameroon say they could still clinch it. There is an anti-conservative majority underground in Cameroon that is afraid of any kind of retaliation from authorities in case they express what they really want.Only a fairer election will make that more likely to be expressed.
But a source at the presidency said that there will be no reason to expect the coalition government to fall apart over after the next presidential election and the Cpdm is looking to gain more council seats during the election.
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