The Cameroon Democratic Union (french: Union Démocratique du Cameroun) is a
political party
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in
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the ...
. It was founded by
, a former Minister of National Education under President
Ahmadou Ahidjo
Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo (24 August 192430 November 1989) was a Cameroonian politician who was the first President of Cameroon, holding the office from 1960 until 1982. Ahidjo played a major role in Cameroon's independence from France as well as ...
, on 26 April 1991.
The CDU boycotted the
March 1992 parliamentary election, along with the
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
May 1997 parliamentary election, the UDC won five seats, all of them in Noun Department in the
West Province. It then boycotted the
October 1997 presidential election, along with the
Social Democratic Front (SDF) and the
National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP).
In the
parliamentary election held on 30 June and 15 September 2002, the UDC won 5 seats, all in Noun Department, out of 180 seats nationwide. Adamou Ndam Njoya and
John Fru Ndi failed to agree on the designation of an all-opposition single candidate for the
presidential election
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Elections by country
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of October 11, 2004. As a result, Ndam Njoya represented a coalition of political parties, the Coalition for National Reconciliation and Reconstruction, and placed third in the final ballot count, winning 4.47% (168,318 votes).
Njoya was re-elected for another five-year term as CDU Chairman at a party congress in
Yaoundé
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, attended by about 3,000 delegates, on 30 November–2 December 2006; there was no challenger for the position.
The UDC won four out of the 163 initially declared seats in the
July 2007 parliamentary election;
it won all four of these seats in the Noun Centre constituency, where the party received 58.28% of the vote.
[ The UDC did not gain any seats in the partial election, held in September, for 17 seats where the initial results were annulled.
At the time of the 2007 election, the CDU formed an alliance with the Progressive Movement (MP) of Jean-Jacques Ekindi, agreeing not to run candidates in the Wouri Centre constituency, where the MP was competing.]
Electoral history
Presidential Elections
National Assembly elections
References
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Political parties in Cameroon
Political parties established in 1991
1991 establishments in Cameroon