By Doh Bertrand Nua
Officials of Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, have expressed satisfaction over the conduct of Cameroon’s first-ever Regional Elections. The remarks were made by the Director General of Elections, Dr. Eric Essousse Sunday 6 December 2020. He was speaking to reporters during a press briefing while evaluating the overall conduct of the polls.
Dr. Eric Essousse, Director General of Elections at ELECAM
He expressed gratitude to all stakeholders including parties, traditional rulers, administration, security forces, media, civil society, national and international observers, and the media for their total commitment that contributed to the success of the election.
“All the election material and documents were made available, in sufficient quality, in the polling stations, and the local polling commissions were all at work. No major incident was reported to my office across the national territory,” revealed Essousse.
He said the voting took place nationwide in calm, order, discipline and in restrict respect of COVID-19 barrier measures in 272 polling stations comprising 117 for municipal councillors and 155 for traditional rulers.
Essousse said in accordance with the law, the polls opened at 8am and closed at 6pm, adding that there were a total of 24 241 electors comprising 10 236 municipal councillors and 14 005 traditional rulers.
He said the counting was ongoing at local polling commissions which would later be forwarded to the regional commissions.
The regional commissions he explained would centralise the votes for verification of the counting operations before proclaiming the results not later than 72 hours as of the close of polls.
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