Cameroon Renaissance Movement

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Cameroon Renaissance Movement
Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun
President Maurice Kamto
FoundedAugust 2012
Headquarters Yaoundé
Ideology Opposition to Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
Opposition to Paul Biya
Seats in the National Assembly
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Website
Party website

The Cameroon Renaissance Movement (French : Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun, MRC) is a political party in Cameroon.

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History

The party was established in August 2012 by Maurice Kamto. [1] It won a single seat in the 2013 parliamentary elections. [2]

Six members the MRC were arrested for distributing face masks and hand sanitizers in the capital, Yaoundé on in May 2020. [3] The use of face masks was obligatory during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In December 2021, around thirty executives and activists from the MRC were sentenced to prison terms for insurrection and endangering state security. The party's first vice-president Alain Fogué and Kamto's spokesman Olivier Bibou Nissack received seven-year sentences. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Dissident minister launches new opposition party Archived 2015-01-06 at archive.today Menas
  2. ↑ Cameroon Assemblée nationale - National Assembly (National Assembly): Last elections IPU
  3. ↑ "Cameroonians arrested for distributing face masks". sabc.co.za. 14 May 2020.
  4. ↑ Cameroun: sept ans de prison pour des cadres du MRC RFI, 27 December 2021
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