[ 2011-07-17 ]

Cameroon's Biya to be candidate again: minister
YAOUNDE (AFP) - Cameroon's veteran President Paul
Biya will be the ruling party's candidate once
again in presidential elections later this year,
the party's spokesman said Sunday.

Biya "is the candidate of the RDPC" (Cameroon
People's Democratic Movement), party spokesman
Jacques Fame Ndongo, who is also the country's
minister for higher education, told state radio.

Biya, 78, is one of Africa's longest-ruling
presidents, in power since 1982. Elections are
expected in October.

Biya has yet to make a personal announcement that
he will run.

The opposition has demanded he step down, even
though he has benefited from a 2008 amendment to
the constitution scrapping limits to presidential
terms.

Fame Ndongo told the radio that Biya would also be
candidate for "all the other (future) presidential
elections until he himself decides otherwise".

Source - AFP

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