Cameroon Renaissance Movement Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun | |
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| President | Maurice Kamto |
| Founded | August 2012 |
| Headquarters | Yaoundé |
| Seats in the National Assembly | 0 / 180 |
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| Party website | |
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 Cameroonportal |
The Cameroon Renaissance Movement (French : Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun, MRC) is a political party in Cameroon.
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]
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