Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

2025

DOI

10.25776/mpdr-0128

Pages

1-32 pp.

Abstract

The main goal of this study was to explore the challenges faced by Cameroon opposition political parties and how these challenges affect presidential electoral outcomes since 1990. We employed both qualitative and quantitative methods to collect data for the study. The research design was the case study design, and the sampling technique was nonprobability sampling (precisely purposeful sampling). We employed the constructivist research philosophy to show that reality resides in the different views of people. Consequently, it finds out that the opposition in Cameroon lacks credibility and vision to achieve victory in presidential elections. They also face challenges of suppression, poor electoral conditions, lack of finances and the multiplicity of opposition parties, lack of internal democracy, and opposition consensus, broken alliance, inconsistency and lack of links with civil societies, funders and minorities like women, students. Finally, the study recommends first that electoral conditions be updated to ensure equality among parties while in the main time, opposition political parties in Cameroon be more democratic internally, create links with NGOs, civil societies and that the opposition in Cameroon should unite and fight for power alternation for the sake of the country and not to share the spoils.

Rights

Included with kind permission from the author(s).

ORCID

0009-0006-9633-0945 (Edmond)

Original Publication Citation

Edmond, C., & Forku, N. D. (2025). Challenges of the opposition in Cameroon multipartism. 1-32. https://doi.org/10.25776/mpdr-0128

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