By Stephen TADAHA
The bishops in Cameroon have demanded the publication of the national electoral list by Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, and a change in the upcoming October 2025 presidential election through peaceful votes.
The Bishops made known their intentions in a pastoral letter on the occasion of Presidential and Regional Elections slated for this year.
In the final report of the national episcopal conference, the bishops of Cameroon invite all Cameroonians around the world to prepare for a historic change in October 2025.
In the document, the 25 archbishops and bishops who signed the 13-page document say they are fed up with the growing misery of the Cameroonian people, plunged into bad governance during 43 years of reign, and demand an urgent change at the head of the nation in October 2025. The bishops also urged Cameroonians to continue to “register massively on the electoral list pending the compulsory publication of the national electoral list per article 80 of the Electoral Code”.
They also drew the attention of all those involved in the organization of the presidential election in October 2025 in Cameroon (notably Elecam, the Electoral Council, the Constitutional Council) in the face of the multiple violations of the laws of the Republic in the exercise of their respective functions. They also remind Eric Essousse (ELECAM General Director) that he had to render the electoral list public since December 30, 2024, and that so far (March 2025), nothing has been done. The bishops, therefore, invited him to change his mentality and to work as it should (respecting the laws of the Republic).
The bishops thereby invite the members of the Electoral Council to exercise their missions per the provisions provided for by the Electoral Code and the Constitution (in all impartiality, in complete independence, in all transparency).
