The
National Assembly of Cameroon is Cameroon's Parliament. It consists of 180 members and each of them have a tenure for five years. There are 49 single and multi-seat constituencies. The active parties in the National Assembly of Cameroon are:
- Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
- Social Democratic Front
- Democratic Union of Cameroon
- Union of Peoples of Cameroon
- National Union for Democracy and Progress.
The political system of Cameroon is Restricted Democratic Practice. The single-member constituencies practice the “First Past the Post” electoral system and the multi-member constituencies practice “Party-List” electoral system. The “First past the Post' electoral system is commonly practiced by most parties as this is being the simplest of all other electoral systems. To be precise, in this system the winning candidate achieves maximum number of votes irrespective of the absolute majority of valid votes. This is basically the election of a candidate by the people and not any political party in particular.
The multi-member constituencies on the other hand practices Party-List proportional Representation. In this system, the voters vote for a particular party of their will and these parties have its candidates. The parties receive seat in depending on their total share of the votes.
The
National Assembly of Cameroon which is also known as Parliament of Cameroon is the law-making body of the Cameroon Government. This is the constant body of the Government as it is never known to have changed and also it does not cater to the changes proposed by the Executive. The National Assembly is responsible for passing laws based on the majority votes. The President of Cameroon has hardly refused to the decisions of the Parliament either. A decision of establishing 100-member senate as a part of bicameral legislature were taken by the Parliament though, it was never put into practice. Therefore, the Cameroon National Assembly is still exercising the old norms quite actively.
