{"id":54930,"date":"2025-07-18T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cameroonian-president-submits-files-for-presidential-election-candidacy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:34:56","slug":"cameroonian-president-submits-files-for-presidential-election-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cameroonian-president-submits-files-for-presidential-election-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroonian president submits files for presidential election candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The files were submitted by Jean Kuete, secretary general of the ruling Cameroon People&#8217;s Democratic Movement (CPDM) party.<\/p>\n<p>Kuete told reporters after officially submitting the files that CPDM is &#8220;fully ready for the election any time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Biya, 92, officially announced that he will run for the upcoming presidential election. He became president in 1982, and was re-elected president in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1997, 2004, 2011 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Elecam said that Biya is among some nine political leaders who have already submitted their application files for the election.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to submit the application is July 21, according to the country&#8217;s electoral code. Cameroon&#8217;s presidential election is scheduled for Oct. 12.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-91128\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/45276303_605-1a59.jpg\" alt=\"The candidacy application files of Cameroonian President Paul Biya for the presidential election were submitted on Thursday, according to the country&#039;s electoral body, Elections Cameroon (Elecam).\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The candidacy application files of Cameroonian President Paul Biya for the presidential election were submitted on Thursday, according to the country&#8217;s electoral body, Elections Cameroon (Elecam).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000091127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000091127,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/45276303_605-1a59.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/45276303_605-1a59.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/45276303_605-1a59.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/45276303_605-1a59.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/45276303_605-1a59.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/45276303_605-1a59.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000091127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54930"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54930"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}