Cameroon: Constitutional Council Declares Incompetent Vis-À-Vis Abdouraman Hamadou Babba

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The Cameroonian presidential election of October 2025 was announced in a climate of institutional crisis after the controversial decision of the Constitutional Council. Referred to by Abdouraman Hamadou Babba, the constitutional judge declared himself incompetent to rule on the implicit refusal of the Electoral Council of ELECAM to examine his request of 23 May 2025. A judgment wrongly qualifying ELECAM's position as "silence" rather than delibe…

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The citizen, a member of civil society, applied to the institution asking it to decide on the criteria laid down by the electoral law in connection with the nomination of candidates for the presidential election. The hearing held on 03 July 2025 at the seat of the Constitution at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé did not overflow the preliminary questions to reach the substance of the application. The Council declared itself incompetent to know …