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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/81e24ba94d004fa3 https://verfassungsblog.de/cameroon-council-elections/ Unwavering Loyalty - The Constitutional Council’s Role in Excluding Cameroon’s Main Opposition Leader From The 2025 Presidential Election Enonchong, Laura-Stella eng 2025-10-07 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Cameroon Kamerun Kamto Maurice | 1954– | Jurist; Politiker Presidential Elections Kamerun Kamto Maurice | 1954– | Jurist; Politiker Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 5 August 2025, the Cameroonian Constitutional Council upheld a Resolution made by Cameroon’s elections management body to exclude opposition leader Maurice Kamto from the presidential election scheduled for 12 October 2025. The decision effectively eliminates the strongest opposition contender from the race and was misguided by its narrow formalism. While judicial formalism may, in some cases, be defensible for the sake of certainty and predictability, the Constitutional Council’s selective adherence to it makes its motivation questionable.