Opposition political leaders in Cameroun alleged that the ruling party is manipulating rules to ensure it stays in power, as Supreme Court in the country said is it will not follow election laws that give it 10 days to rule on complaints and petitions concerning next month's parliamentary and council elections, CEOAFRICA.com gathered. 

According to Supreme Court Justice Clement Atangana, extra days were needed to review the 265 petitions for council elections and 76 petitions for parliamentary elections the court received.

Sources said some of the opposition parties calls for the polls to be delayed again, saying the president violated the electoral code when he postponed the voting several times.

Speaking about some of the complaints the court is handling, legal adviser to the Social Democratic Front explained that there are many cases centered around members of some political parties being on the lists of other political parties, and many more.

The ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, CPDM, has been accused of rigging the elections.  The party is sure to win about 100 out of 180 parliamentary seats and about 250 out of 360 councils in constituencies where they are unchallenged or are competing with very weak parties.

However, in his statement, Professor Ngole Ngole Elvis, who is one of the CPDM member said,”All the 30 political parties running have an equal chance of winning something, but because the balance of forces in this sort of inter-associational competition is always asymmetrical, some political parties will gain more than the others, and in this case the CPDM party has an edge because in organizational terms, in financial terms, political ideology, the CPDM is in all local constituencies with the exception of one."
Meanwhile, some of the candidates viewing for one post or the other have been rejected by the electoral body in the country. An official of the electoral board in Cameroon said they turned down the nomination papers because a majority of political parties did not respect provisions of the electoral code.

The elections are firmly set for September 30, although most of the opposition parties have called for its cancellation.