DEPUTIES

The very first ordinary parliamentary session of the legislative year 2023 has been convened to begin on Friday 03 March. Like the very first session of the year, the renewal of the office of the National Assembly is one of the highlights of the session, a renewal which saw the Right Honorable Cavayé Yeguié Djibril take over the helm of the presidency of the National Assembly. The deputies, the majority moreover, renewed their confidence in the illustrious outgoing President to lead them again this year.

Indeed, the Right Honorable Cavayé Yeguié Djibril, was re-elected on Monday as President of the National Assembly (Lower House of Parliament) of Cameroon for a renewable year.

With a college of 159 voters, this dignitary of the Democratic Rally of the Cameroonian People (RDPC), obtained 146 votes in his favor for 13 invalid ballots. The rest of the officers to accompany the updated NAP.

SENATORS

Following the senatorial elections of March 12, 2023, the President of the Republic proceeded on Friday March 31 to the publication of the list of 30 missing senators from the Upper House of the Cameroonian Parliament. According to the law, out of 100 senators, 70 are elected by indirect suffrage.

In this presidential degree made public, we note the renewal of former outgoing senators. The most significant being that of the current President of the Upper House of Parliament, the Honorable Marcel Niat Njifenji, who was recently re-elected as President of the Senate. This is his third successive term since the establishment of the Senate in 2013. Alongside Marcel Niat Njifenji, another Senate regular, the first vice-president of the chamber, Aboubakary Abdoulaye, also benefited from the renewal of the confidence of His Excellency President Paul Biya.

Of the thirty appointed senators:

11 are entering the Senate;
06 senators are from the opposition and
24 senators are members of the presidential party, the Democratic Rally of the Cameroonian People (RDPC).

The CPDM, having won the 70 seats in the ballot, now has 94 senators out of 100 in the new Upper House of Parliament.

The Senate will therefore count for this mandate, seven political parties namely:

The Democratic Rally of the Cameroonian People (Rdpc),
The Social Democratic Front (Sdf),
The Front for the National Salvation of Cameroon (Fsnc),
The People’s National Democratic Alliance (Andp),
The Union of Cameroonian Peoples (UPC),
The National Union for Democracy and Progress (Undp),
The Movement for the Defense of the Republic (Mdr).

Recall that this election took place on March 12, 2023, an election during which the ruling CPDM party won all the seats at stake. This landslide victory is a show of force by the CPDM and testifies to its supremacy.

At the end of this parliamentary session, it is clear that the presidency of the two chambers were reelected, namely:

the Honorable Marcel Niat Njifenji, re-elected President of the Upper House: SENATE;
The Honorable Cavayé Yeguié Djibril, re-elected President of the National Assembly.