Cameroon is to hold its legislative and municipal elections on February 9, 2020 after being postponed twice earlier due to political turmoil. The elections were announced through a presidential decree recently. The last legislative polls for municipalities were held in 2013 and were due in 2018. The 2018 presidential election stoked a political crisis in Cameroon, where President Biya has been at the helm of affairs for 37 years. Opposition leader Maurice Kamto was imprisoned along with some of his supporters for denouncing electoral fraud through nationwide agitations. Kamto, after his release from Jail, attempted to hold public meetings. But the administration denied him the permission. His Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon has demanded certain preconditions be met, like a revision of the electoral code. The main opposition party in Parliament – the Social Democratic Front -has still not made.
