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Cameroonian Democratic Union
The Cameroon Democratic Union (french: Union Démocratique du Cameroun) is a political party in Cameroon. It was founded by Adamou Ndam Njoya, a former Minister of National Education under President Ahmadou Ahidjo, on 26 April 1991. The CDU boycotted the Cameroonian parliamentary election, 1992, March 1992 parliamentary election, along with the Social Democratic Front (Cameroon), Social Democratic Front (SDF) due to the government's failure to meet opposition demands, which included the establishment of an independent electoral commission to oversee the election. In the Cameroonian parliamentary election, 1997, May 1997 parliamentary election, the UDC won five seats, all of them in Noun Department in the West Province (Cameroon), West Province. It then boycotted the Cameroonian presidential election, 1997, October 1997 presidential election, along with the Social Democratic Front (Cameroon), Social Democratic Front (SDF) and the National Union for Democracy and Progress (Cameroon), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ideological or policy goals. Political parties have become a major part of the politics of almost every country, as modern party organizations developed and spread around the world over the last few centuries. It is extremely rare for a country to have Non-partisan democracy, no political parties. Some countries have Single-party state, only one political party while others have Multi-party system, several. Parties are important in the politics of autocracies as well as democracies, though usually democracies have more political parties than autocracies. Autocracies often have a single party that governs the country, and some political scientists consider competition between two or more parties to be an essential part of democracy. Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
