Young Cameroonians aged thirty will not need to go to South Africa, at the funeral of Winnie Mandela, to see what a political rally is! In Yaoundé, it is now possible. The MRC has indeed made the first popular meeting in Yaoundé since 1992.
The reason is simple. Since 1992, the CPDM has always used the administration to ban all opposition meetings. Thus, it has always been impossible for anyone to measure the strength of the opposition parties, creating a de facto space for CPDM fraud.
In politics everything is manufactured, that is to say, nothing is natural. In other words, perception is what makes reality. Perceived president at the end of a meeting, Emmanuel Macron became, he who three years ago did not exist politically.
This prohibition of opposition rallies at home has made a perception of the Cameroonian opposition as starved, and therefore condemned, and thus the victory of the tyrant as inevitable. Extraordinary thing! Cameroon finds itself with 93% scores in elections, while a district like Madagascar in Yaounde, which I traveled for two months from house to house, finds itself administered by the CPDM - a simple political impossibility that is as visible as the neighborhood itself. 'At the finish', says the local RDPC councilor, 'it is the CPDM that won'.
But this impossibility is only the result of a perception which upstream makes the bed of the fraud, in order to make the fraudulent results inevitable and therefore acceptable. Cameroon has since 1992 been led by an impossibility that a regime absolutely minority, and that to all the differences, because even triply speaking Paul Biya comes from a tribe absolutely minority, take the majority of the population hostage.
This has been possible so far only because the perception has been fabricated, that the opposition parties can not make a crowd. And these until then have always played this game: the SDF has just completed a hungry meeting in Bamenda, in his stronghold, meeting starving in a room of poverty so epic that it is not worth mentioning. And the candidate of his choice, Osih, instead of starting to campaign, disappeared from circulation.
Perception makes reality in politics. With the SDF, the administration acquired in the CPDM does not even need to ban meetings - the presidential candidate no longer holds them, his appointment acquired. He has already withdrawn and is waiting patiently for the administrative figures that MINADT will give him. He conceded, so to speak, his defeat, where the ban did not take place. The consequence of this package is the same as with the prohibitions: the accomplished fact of the victory of the CPDM, which thus transforms the perception born of the absence of meetings, to install fraudulent results.
And this perception of the popularity of the CPDM, itself, we know, is only made by giving money to people, by buying their participation in 1000Fcfa, 5000Fcfa! The political rally is there to show the face of what a political party can do with its activists, that is to say with those who finance it. It is therefore a demonstration of his strength. And because it is a demonstration of its strength, it allows the candidate he chooses, at the end of the meeting, to build alliances on the basis of its strength demonstrated by its activists, before the deadline. The question here at the end of the meeting is who will lead the opposition to the CPDM, the SDF or the MRC.
It is important to underline this, precisely because the elections are fraudulent in Cameroon, a coalition based on the results of that of 2011 can only be illusory. It would be wise today for anyone who wants to make a coalition with the MRC - and I know that TV chess leaders are agitated - to also make his meeting so that everyone can see if he is able to gather as many people in Yaoundé around his leader. I say in Yaoundé, because Yaoundé is an extraordinarily ungrateful city, at the same time as political capital of our country.
Weaning this city of the popular festival that is meetings has always been the stake of the minority president who took us hostage, and so far he will have succeeded his bet. To save the people from the perception of their absolute minority will have been their warhorse, and so far it will have put the governors, prefects, sub-prefects at work to impose it.
But each of us will have seen Kamto work, really work like no politician in this country has done since 1990. Have we ever seen the UNDP leader campaign?
This prohibition of opposition rallies at home has made a perception of the Cameroonian opposition as starved, and therefore condemned, and thus the victory of the tyrant as inevitable. Extraordinary thing! Cameroon finds itself with 93% scores in elections, while a district like Madagascar in Yaounde, which I traveled for two months from house to house, finds itself administered by the CPDM - a simple political impossibility that is as visible as the neighborhood itself. 'At the finish', says the local RDPC councilor, 'it is the CPDM that won'.
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This has been possible so far only because the perception has been fabricated, that the opposition parties can not make a crowd. And these until then have always played this game: the SDF has just completed a hungry meeting in Bamenda, in his stronghold, meeting starving in a room of poverty so epic that it is not worth mentioning. And the candidate of his choice, Osih, instead of starting to campaign, disappeared from circulation.
Perception makes reality in politics. With the SDF, the administration acquired in the CPDM does not even need to ban meetings - the presidential candidate no longer holds them, his appointment acquired. He has already withdrawn and is waiting patiently for the administrative figures that MINADT will give him. He conceded, so to speak, his defeat, where the ban did not take place. The consequence of this package is the same as with the prohibitions: the accomplished fact of the victory of the CPDM, which thus transforms the perception born of the absence of meetings, to install fraudulent results.
And this perception of the popularity of the CPDM, itself, we know, is only made by giving money to people, by buying their participation in 1000Fcfa, 5000Fcfa! The political rally is there to show the face of what a political party can do with its activists, that is to say with those who finance it. It is therefore a demonstration of his strength. And because it is a demonstration of its strength, it allows the candidate he chooses, at the end of the meeting, to build alliances on the basis of its strength demonstrated by its activists, before the deadline. The question here at the end of the meeting is who will lead the opposition to the CPDM, the SDF or the MRC.
It is important to underline this, precisely because the elections are fraudulent in Cameroon, a coalition based on the results of that of 2011 can only be illusory. It would be wise today for anyone who wants to make a coalition with the MRC - and I know that TV chess leaders are agitated - to also make his meeting so that everyone can see if he is able to gather as many people in Yaoundé around his leader. I say in Yaoundé, because Yaoundé is an extraordinarily ungrateful city, at the same time as political capital of our country.
Weaning this city of the popular festival that is meetings has always been the stake of the minority president who took us hostage, and so far he will have succeeded his bet. To save the people from the perception of their absolute minority will have been their warhorse, and so far it will have put the governors, prefects, sub-prefects at work to impose it.
But each of us will have seen Kamto work, really work like no politician in this country has done since 1990. Have we ever seen the UNDP leader campaign?
Have we ever seen the leader of the SVP campaign, I mean, outside the Nun? Have we ever seen John Fru Ndi really campaign? The concession of the land has been extraordinary at home, and it is this reality that Kamto has suddenly laid bare with its historic meeting. Hat down!
Source -- CamerounWeb
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