Cameroon’s Maurice Kamto Quits as Leader of the MRC Opposition Party
CAMEROON · POLITICS Key Facts —The resignation Maurice Kamto, Cameroon’s best-known opposition figure, resigned on Monday, September 8, as national president of the MRC, the party he founded and has led since 2012. —The letter He announced the decision himself on social media — a terse, three-sentence letter to the party’s national directorate citing the […] The post Cameroon’s Maurice Kamto…
Maurice Kamto, the opposition leader in Cameroon, has resigned as the president of his party, the MRC, with immediate effect. The resignation was announced through a brief letter posted on his social media accounts on September 8. In the letter, Kamto cited the "higher interest" of the MRC and its members as the reason for his departure.
Hours later, his first vice president, Mamadou Yakouba, also resigned, citing persistent hostility directed at him. Both resignations occurred during a period of internal turmoil within the party, with no successor named for either position and the party's internal rules being tested publicly.
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