{"id":176869,"date":"2024-07-19T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-opposition-doubts-reasons-for-election-postponement\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T07:06:07","slug":"cameroon-opposition-doubts-reasons-for-election-postponement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-opposition-doubts-reasons-for-election-postponement\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Opposition Doubts Reasons for Election Postponement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em><em>Cameroon&#8217;s government has decided to postpone parliamentary and municipal elections. The decision has ignited fierce debates over implications for the future, with many doubting President Biya&#8217;s motivations for the move.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">On July 8, the National Assembly of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/cameroon\/t-67210591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon<\/a> voted in favor of extending the mandate of current Members of Parliament (MPs), moving the elections to 2026 &#8212; one year later than initially planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The postponement, justified by the government as necessary due to financial&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407180667.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon&#8217;s government has decided to postpone parliamentary and municipal elections. The decision has ignited fierce debates over implications for the future, with many doubting President Biya&#8217;s motivations for the move. On July 8, the National Assembly of Cameroon voted in favor of extending the mandate of current Members of Parliament (MPs), moving the elections to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651114:dbbfc40676612cc92c12ef632cf3ad83:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,13897,3119,257,5675,13763,7735,254],"class_list":["post-176869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-doubts","tag-election","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-postponement","tag-reasons","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651114:dbbfc40676612cc92c12ef632cf3ad83:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}