The party??s parliamentarians declared their intention to participate at the 2011 presidential elections during a press conference last Tuesday. Leaders of the Cameroon Democratic Union (CDU) have resolved to participate at the 2011 presidential election, irrespective of what they term ??colossal weaknesses?? of Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), a statutory institution created to manage elections in the country. The declaration was made last Tuesday by the party??s all four parliamentarians during a press conference organized at Bonapriso in Douala. According to the

delegation leader, Hon. Patricia Ndam Njoya, ELECAM is not credible enough to organize and manage a free and fair election in Cameroon, given that ??the body mainly constitutes the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement (CPDM) political bureau and central committee members, section presidents, mayors, councillors and diehard militants appointed by the party??s chairman.?? The conference organizers also emphatically disclaimed an allegation made by one of the local dailies that the CDU hierarchy has imposed an irrevocable sum of FCFA 300,000 on each of its four parliamentarians for the upkeep of party activities. ??The decision is not an imposition. The parliamentarians unanimously opted to donate the said amount for the party??s general welfare,?? Mrs. Njoya said. Founded in 1991, the CDU has hardly had a foothold on the political landscape of Cameroon. The party boycotted the March 1992 parliamentary elections, and has since then suffered successive electoral defeats. It currently has a firm grip only in the Noun Division, the hometown of the party??s chair, Dr. Adamou Ndam Njoya, from where all its four parliamentarians hail.

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