{"id":17668,"date":"2018-10-08T20:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17668"},"modified":"2018-10-08T20:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T20:24:17","slug":"cameroon-opposition-candidate-maurice-kamto-claims-election-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17668","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon opposition candidate Maurice Kamto claims election win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"93.9083395943\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Cameroon&#8217;s opposition candidate has claimed victory in Sunday&#8217;s presidential polls despite a government warning not to announce unofficial results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;I was charged with taking a penalty, I took it and I scored,&#8221; Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC) candidate Maurice Kamto said at a news conference on Monday in Yaounde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;I have received a clear mandate from the people and I intend to defend it until the end,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I invite the outgoing president to organise a peaceful way to transfer power,&#8221; Kamto added.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition candidate did not give results to justify his claim, which was greeted by loud cheers from supporters as he made his announcement.<\/p>\n<p>By law, each polling station must submit its results, after verification by the electoral commission, to the Constitutional Court which is responsible for announcing the official tally within 15 days.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the polls, Kamto formed a coalition with the marginal opposition People&#8217;s Development Front (FDP) but was still seen as unlikely to threaten President Paul Biya&#8217;s 35-year grip on power.<\/p>\n<p>The main opposition Social Democratic Front contender, Joshua Osih, did not participate in the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/cameroon-vote-count-begins-president-paul-biya-return-181008054246081.html\">counting of votes<\/a> has not been concluded in an election expected to return Biya for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/cameroon-set-sunday-vote-paul-biya-seeks-seventh-term-181006152009455.html\">seventh term<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biya, Africa&#8217;s oldest leader, has been in office since 1982.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon&#8217;s opposition candidate has claimed victory in Sunday&#8217;s presidential polls despite a government warning not to announce unofficial results. &#8220;I was charged with taking a penalty, I took it and I scored,&#8221; Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC) candidate Maurice Kamto said at a news conference on Monday in Yaounde. &#8220;I have received a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}