New Senators to be voted Sunday New Senators to be voted Sunday.

As per the updated lists of the Electoral College published recently by elections management body, Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, a total of 11,138 electors will participate in the March 12 Senatorial election across the national territory.

The voters will casts their ballots after weeks of campaigns from candidates representing the ten political parties vying for seats at the Upper House of Parliament.

In line with Section 87 (1) of the Electoral Code, campaigns opened on the 15^th day preceding the election and is expected to close as specified by the law in the same section at the midnight on the eve of the election day.

Of the 11,138 electors to participate in the election, 10,271 are municipal councillors, 844 are regional councillors, while 23 of the electors enjoy the status of both regional and municipal councillors.

Voting on March 12, it should be said, will take place in 198 polling stations in the 58 Divisional headquarters of the country.

ELECAM through the Chairperson of its Electoral Board, Dr Enow Abrams Egbe, last February 23, declared the institution’s readiness for the election. This was during ELECAM’s fourth statutory session which held in Yaounde.

Dr Enow Abrams assured that ELECAM has cleaned, updated and published the electoral registers for the poll even before the deadline with competent units of the Directorate General of Elections having effected certain minor corrections that were requested.

Voter’s cards, he assured, had been produced and dispatched to the different ELECAM branches nationwide.

Dr Enow Abrams said as at February 23, “ballot papers and election campaign documents had been produced and ready for deployment…”. He reassured that, “everything is set to carry on with the next phases, the nearest of which” is campaigns for the election.

He said, ELECAM has by all standard, shown its competence in beating even operational deadlines in the planning and other activities related to the poll.

The ten parties to battle for seats during the election on Sunday includes the Cameroon People's Democracy Movement, CPDM. The party will be contesting in all 10 regions.

The CPDM, it should be said, is running in the South and South West regions unopposed. The opposition Social Democratic Front, SDF, party will take part in the election only in the North West Region.

The National Alliance for Democracy and Progress, NADP, will run in the election in the Far North Region while the Front for the National Salvation of Cameroon, FSNC, will run in the North Region.

The Cameroon Democratic Union, CDU, will enter the race in the West Region while the National Union for Democracy and Progress, NUDP, is contesting the election in the Adamawa, East, Far North and North Regions.

The Cameroon Democracy Front, FDC, will challenge the CPDM in the Centre Region while the Union of Socialist Movement, UMS, is on the starting block in the West Region.

The Movement for the Defense of the Republic, MDR party is running in the Far North Region while the Cameroon Party for National Reconciliation, PCRN, will give the CPDM a run for its money in the Littoral Region.