The analysis of grass rootsrealities and electoral results in Cameroon

Since the return of multiparty politics in the Cameroonian political landscape in the 1990s, the people participate in elections to renew the mandate of their representatives both at the local and at the national level. The party in power the Cameroon People Democratic Movement (CPDM) has always come out with landslide victories in all the electoral consultations according to the official results from the electoral management bodies. However, the daily lives of the people are characterized by different forms of hardship ranging from socio-economic difficulties (unemployment, poverty, lack of basic social needs, and poor infrastructural development) to political challenges like corruption, bad governance, embezzlement of state funds and tribalism (greater autonomy in the two English speaking regions). This makes it difficult to corroborate the results of the elections and the daily lives claims of the people who continue to renew the mandate of the same representatives with the same political output. It is in this regard that we investigated on the motives behind the electoral results in Cameroon for the past 3 decades.

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Adamu Tandaye ist Politikwissenschaftler und PhD-Student an der Universität Yaoundé II SOA Kamerun. Er ist ein assoziierter Forscher an der Universitaire libre de Cameroun und ein ehemaliger Erasmus-Mobilitätsstudent an der Universität von Babes bolyai in Rumänien.