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President Paul Biya signed a decree on 9 November calling Cameroon's voters to legislative and municipal elections on 7 February 2027, to be held on the same day. The polls will renew the 180-seat National Assembly and 360 municipal councils, last elected in February 2020 and whose mandates have been extended more than once; the government cited cost and logistics for holding both votes together. On the same day, Biya renewed the leadership of the electoral body, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), for four years. The polls will be the first since the October 2025 presidential election, whose result Issa Tchiroma Bakary disputes; his party, suspended for three months on 27 October, says it will boycott them.
