Kamto Accuses UN of Supporting Biya Regime, Vows to Keep Fighting Despite Disqualification
By Synthia Lateu
In a message addressed to Cameroon following his disqualification from the 2025 presidential election, Maurice Kamto accused the United Nations of supporting the Biya regime’s efforts to crush Cameroonians.
He expressed deep regret that the international organization did not seem concerned by the CPDM regime’s political crimes against the people, despite the values it claims to promote and defend.
“The UN, which signed a secret agreement with ELECAM on 9 May 2025, purportedly to guarantee the transparency of the 2025 presidential election, has betrayed you,” Kamto declared on August 7.
The former CRM president had previously warned that the UN would share responsibility for any electoral fraud in Cameroon’s upcoming presidential election, asserting that its partnership with ELECAM legitimizes a flawed and opaque electoral system.
Looking back on the events that led to the rejection of his candidacy, Kamto denounced the CPDM regime’s decision, saying it was taken long ago.
“This regime never accepted the fact that we avoided the big political trap of the 2020 legislative and municipal elections by choosing to boycott. The regime wanted to destroy the CRM through those elections and never forgave us for escaping,” he said, adding that the legislative and municipal elections originally scheduled for February 2025 were postponed until March 2026 with this in mind.
He further emphasized that the debates surrounding the CRM’s supposed inability to present a candidate were fabricated by the regime. However, the party “had to avoid giving the regime a pretext for rejecting a candidacy presented by the CRM because rejecting the nullity of the imperative mandate had become a matter of life or death for this regime.”
Kamto added that his unexpected presentation as a candidate under the banner of MANIDEM shocked the regime, which “rushed to create a new president of Manidem and his candidacy file to artificially create what was called a plurality of investure.”
Promising Cameroonians, he said, “I am on my feet and will remain at your side. The struggle continues.”
He also acknowledged the unwavering commitment and remarkable courage of his supporters, especially FCC coordinator , the MANIDEM party leader and militants, in the face of the many trials imposed daily by a regime “with no inspiration and no vision for the country.”
Kamto’s outting was highly awaited by his militants and supporters, many of whom have been looking to him for clear guidance on which political party to support now that he has been excluded from the presidential race. Questions about potential coalitions and alliances have also been at the forefront of public discussion, with many hoping that Kamto will join forces with other opposition groups to continue defending their shared priorities.
