{"id":250118,"date":"2026-11-13T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-sets-february-date-for-long-delayed-parliamentary-and-local-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:00:20","slug":"cameroon-sets-february-date-for-long-delayed-parliamentary-and-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-sets-february-date-for-long-delayed-parliamentary-and-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Sets February Date for Long-Delayed Parliamentary and Local Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em> Cameroon will hold parliamentary and local elections on 7 February 2027, setting the stage for a vote that could test the ruling party&#8217;s grip on power after a contested presidential election last year. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;See you on February 7,&#8221; read the headline of the state-owned <em>Cameroon Tribune<\/em> on Tuesday, a day after a decree from 93-year-old President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/paul-biya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Biya<\/a> announced the date for the polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The elections, which have been postponed twice, will be the first nationwide vote since Biya was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international-news\/20251106-cameroon-s-biya-world-s-oldest-president-sworn-in-for-8th-term\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declared the&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611120006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 will hold parliamentary and local elections on 7 February 2027, setting the stage for a vote that could test the ruling party&#8217;s grip on power after a contested presidential election last year. &#8220;See you on February 7,&#8221; read the headline of the state-owned Cameroon Tribune on Tuesday, a day after a decree from 93-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":250119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660487:fdbc9207514cc2f84a44126ef89677ce:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,6144,821,5742,7823,44093,257,5855,7123,254],"class_list":["post-250118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-date","tag-elections","tag-february","tag-local","tag-longdelayed","tag-news","tag-parliamentary","tag-sets","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660487:fdbc9207514cc2f84a44126ef89677ce:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250118","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=250118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}