Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Arnaud Nicolas MAWEL
Published on 2024-03-04 13:31:49
The decrees of the Senate and the National Assembly summon parliamentarians for the beginning of the first session of the legislative year on Tuesday, March 5th.
The representatives of the nation and those of decentralized territorial collectivities will meet on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 in their respective hemicycles. Deputies, summoned by the President of the National Assembly, Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, will participate in the opening plenary session starting at 11 a.m. in the temporary hemicycle of the Yaoundé Congress Hall. The senators, on the other hand, will do the same exercise starting at 4 p.m. in the temporary hemicycle of the same hall.
The main issue of the March parliamentary session is the renewal of the Chamber’s offices and the offices of the general commissions. This renewal will take place in a context where Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, President of the National Assembly since 1992 and aged 84, would like to run for re-election. Influential in the Far North region, the politician wanted to organize a forum on famine in the Grand North. However, the presidency of the Republic opposed this event by prohibiting it. This prohibition marks a certain distance between the President of the Republic, Paul Biya, and the President of the National Assembly, Cavaye Yeguie Djibril.
In the Senate, President Marcel Niat Njifenji is rarely seen. Rumors explain his silence and absence by his health condition which requires continuous care. Absent from the scene for months, the Senate President, 90 years old, with 10 already spent at the helm of the upper house, is the very first president in the history of the Cameroonian Senate created in 1996. His stay in office as president, like that of Cavaye Yeguie, depends on the hierarchy of the RDPC, the majority party in the parliament.
The March session, which will be initially conducted by the age bureaus until the election of the final bureaus, starts the day after the rise in fuel prices causing widespread inflation. Security crises in the Far North, Northwest, and Southwest regions, the cost of living crisis, the supervision of the Indomitable Lions (national football team), power outages, and many other topics are currently on the agenda. They will be able to fill the control of ministerial action through oral questions.
Read the original article(French) on Journal du Cameroun
