Cameroon President Paul Biya said Monday he was delaying local elections to 2020, a declaration read on the radio said Monday, the second time in two years that the poll has been postponed.
“The mandate of municipal councillors elected on September 30, 2013 has been extended until February 29, 2020,” Biya declared, which essentially sets the poll back until that date.On July 11, 2018, the elections were postponed a first time using the same method.Biya, who is 86, has been in power for 36 years.
Legislative elections could now be delayed as well because the government wants to hold them at the same time to cut costs, deputies toldCameroon is in the midst of a security crisis that has pitted separatist English-speaking regions in the west against the French-speaking population elsewhere.
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