By Prof. Patrice Nganang
The MRC as a political party has still only occupied the political space of the SDF, political awareness of the opposition since 1990, with its grassroots politics, or, as a person said in 2012, ‘Kamto takes the bamiléké share of the SDF.’
And he never behaved otherwise, because precisely in 2017, the fief of the SDF, first of all destabilised by the SCNC and as early as 2019 by the civil war, which made everything voting in the North West and South West impossible, and at the same time made the watchword of the boycott of effective elections in this region-Noso.
The boycott in the North West and the South West allowed Maurice Kamto to become second in a presidential election in which he would not have been lucky with the SDF otherwise-and that is to say to be ahead of the SDF, one which will have been weaned from its base.
The disappearance of English speakers as political actors in the electoral process has manufactured many parasites and first Maurice Kamto, and therefore the MRC, whose parasitic of the work of activists has thus become a political programme, that is to say that, it has extended to become a use of English speakers as political blackmail: the slogan ‘Change in peace’ is the articulation of this blackmail which is translated as: I’m not like English speakers! ’‘Love me, because I’m not like the “Ambas”.