Cameroon’s ELECAM has 15 days to receive candidacies for 7 February elections
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Journal du Cameroun
After Paul Biya’s decree of 9 November 2026 convening the electorate for the legislative and municipal elections of 7 February 2027, ELECAM, Cameroon’s electoral body, is opening the nomination phase. It has 15 days to receive candidacy files, according to Journal du Cameroun.
ELECAM, the body responsible for organising elections in Cameroon, has 15 days to receive candidacies for the legislative and municipal elections of 7 February 2027. President Paul Biya convened the electorate by a decree signed on 9 November 2026, according to Journal du Cameroun. After this deadline, no list can be registered.
The Electoral Code strictly regulates the submission of files. For the municipal elections, they are submitted exclusively at ELECAM’s communal branches, in accordance with Article 181. For the legislative elections, they are submitted either to ELECAM’s departmental agency or to the General Directorate of Elections, under Article 164-1.
The contents of the files are the same for both elections, with one exception. Required are a candidacy declaration in triplicate, a birth certificate extract less than three months old, a certificate of nationality, a criminal record extract (bulletin no. 3) less than three months old and a sworn statement of single candidacy and eligibility.
This phase follows the signing of the decree convening the electorate on 9 November. Journal du Cameroun puts the closing of candidacies for the legislative elections at 24 November.
