Our vision

School, care, employment, social protection and land are open to everyone, not only to those who already have means.

One may create, undertake and earn. The state frames this so the fruit of work also returns to those who produce it, and to the territories where it is produced.

The name of the doctrine. “Afro”: it starts from African societies. “Socio”: solidarity comes before each for himself. “Liberalism”: the freedom to undertake remains, inside a frame.

The doctrine places itself in the middle, between a socialism that would smother initiative and a liberalism that would leave the weakest aside.

• Develop the collective memory of the peoples of Cameroon.
• Consolidate Cameroonian national culture.
• Popular education founded on participatory citizenship, leadership and entrepreneurship.

• Secure social emancipation for all.
• Strengthen women’s power to act, and their autonomy.
• Develop the economy through shared prosperity.
• Cultivate economic patriotism.

• Win monetary, military and strategic sovereignty.
• Build a concerted pan-African emergence.

• Create a national institute of higher pan-African studies, to rethink the development of Africa in legal and political science, economics, international trade and finance, technological research, digital technology, industrial and mining engineering.
• Deploy a national civic-participation programme for Cameroonians aged 15 to 20: CLE schools (citizenship, leadership, entrepreneurship) in every district, during school holidays.

• Build national culture by teaching and spreading, in the public space, the history of the peoples, the traditions and the ancestral inheritance.
• Establish a moment of gathering: the national anthem sung by all, across the whole territory, every Monday morning.
• Adopt 8 August as the national day of commemoration of heroes and patriots.
• Rehabilitate the founding fathers by giving their names to schools, roads, public spaces and buildings.
• Adopt a national language of pan-African reach, for the cultural integration of the continent.

• Set up houses of information, culture and entrepreneurship (MINCEP) in every district, for access to useful knowledge and to computer tools.
• Adopt a national calendar of cultural events, a lever for mixing and for domestic tourism.
• Create the museum of stars, to celebrate Cameroonians who excel and to inspire the young.
• Deploy a policy of sports infrastructure, coaching and training, to place the national teams back at the top of the continent, in every discipline.

• Set up a public platform on the actions of the state and their results.
• Adopt an anti-corruption law and strengthen CONAC’s power to prosecute.
• Apply strictly article 66 of the Constitution on the declaration of assets by public officials.
• Make the High Court of Justice effective (article 53 of the Constitution of January 1996) to try senior servants of the state.
• Develop a national scholarship programme to reward the best results in national examinations.

• Form a federation of administratively and economically autonomous regions, each with a government and a local assembly, in order to return decision-making to the people.
• Redraw departments and communes according to the geography of ethnocultural groups, together with the economic viability of the territories.
• Establish the commune as the basic unit and the lever of development.
• Elect the president of the Republic in two rounds, for a term renewable only once.
• Appoint a prime minister, head of government, drawn from the majority in the National Assembly.
• Make the government answerable to the head of state and to the Assembly: reshuffles possible, and motions of censure under set conditions.
• Dissolve the Senate and share its duties between the local assemblies and the National Assembly.
• Create a high institution for cultures, in order to institutionalise traditional authority.

• Place senior staff on renewable performance contracts.
• Redeploy staff and digitise public services in order to make access easier.
• Provide social advantages for staff who take up posts in the least-served areas.

• Consolidate the independence of the judiciary from the executive, and bring a modernised bench closer to citizens.
• Relieve the prisons through better regulation of pretrial detention, and improve prison conditions.
• Give particular protection to the most vulnerable citizens.

• Recast and regionalise curricula according to the resources and potential of the local economy, so they meet the demand for jobs.
• Professionalise teaching and specialise training from secondary school, with the private sector.
• Turn content first toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics, for logical thinking and the capacity to innovate.
• Introduce citizenship, entrepreneurship and leadership from the start of secondary school.
• Teach national languages and a pan-African language in secondary schools, and spread pan-African culture.
• Make room for the personal development of pupils. Five orientations: professionalise from secondary school, specialise training, regionalise according to the local economy, spread pan-African culture, develop the person.
• The present systems date from before independence. They trained a workforce for the colonial administrations. They now leave young people without job skills and graduates without posts.
• Reorganise school calendars according to the climate seasons, so holiday activities fall in the sunny periods.
• Organise inter-regional school exchanges for the best pupils, in order to strengthen the sense of national belonging.

• Turn the health system toward prevention and access to care for all.
• Strengthen the technical platform and open a channel with Cameroonian doctors abroad, for the return of skills.
• Set up progressive universal health coverage, first for the most vulnerable: a public health insurance that protects every layer of the population against the financial risk of care.
• Establish a universal basic income, to reduce inequalities and preserve dignity.
• Decentralise the management of all social benefits to the scale of the regions.

• Extend prenatal allowances and maternity-related benefits to all Cameroonian women.
• Intensify girls’ schooling, and penalise child marriage and female genital mutilation.
• Adopt land, tax and customs measures in support of firms led by women.
• Set a minimum quota for the representation of women in municipal and regional councils, and in the National Assembly.

• Structure the economic thinking of the state around inclusive growth and a fair sharing of its fruits.
• Intensify industrialisation, research and innovation in three sectors: agriculture, renewable energy, digital technology.
• Support first the SMEs and the rural economy, and frame then formalise the informal economy.
• Design a tax architecture of solidarity, which favours firms that reinvest a substantial share of their gains on the territory, especially in rural areas.
• Revise the status of the employee and make access to company capital easier.
• Optimise the state’s regulating mission: create the conditions for growth, and keep the use of resources controlled and lasting.

• Secure fair and safe access to land, for every layer of the population.
• Protect community territories and biodiversity, and strengthen control of concessions on state land.
• Modernise the land register: transparent procedures, shorter delays for title deeds.

• Create at least one agro-pole per department, in partnership between the public sector, firms and communities, for food self-sufficiency.
• Choose local value chains according to the soils and the climate.
• Create a national export-promotion agency, to accompany producers on regional and international markets.
• Protect the environment through a rational use of land and the preservation of the diversity of species.

• Aim in the medium term at a mix of 40% fossil energy, 30% electricity, 20% biomass and 10% other renewables.
• Develop production infrastructure in each oil basin, for the state’s sovereignty over oil and gas.
• Build new refineries at Kribi (the Kribi-Campo basin) and at Garoua, for the onshore reserves of the north.
• Multiply micro-dams on the Sanaga, the Nyong, the Benue, the Noun, the Moungo, the Lokoundje, the Chari, the Metche and the Djerem, under the lead of the regions.
• Invest in solar and geothermal energy.
• Update and publish the geological and mining map of Cameroon.
• Harmonise mining exploration at national level, and delegate supervision of operations to the regions.
• Share oil and mining tax receipts in a logic of shared prosperity.

• Align local industrial policy with the agricultural, fisheries and mining chains of the regions.
• Lighten customs duties, advance payments and corporate tax for local industries in food, energy, building materials and digital technology.
• Build motorways between the regional capitals, for the flows of goods and people.
• Extend the Douala–Yaoundé–Ngaoundéré railway to Maroua, and build a Bamenda–Batouri line via Kumba, Kribi, Sangmélima and Yokadouma, from east to west.
• Create lasting cities, where housing and infrastructure take account of social, economic and environmental issues.

• Create regional incubators, in partnership between regional administrations and the private sector.
• Grant a tax holiday, for their first three years, to start-ups and SMEs created by citizens under 30.
• Deploy technology hubs in Buea, Douala, Dschang, Ngaoundéré and Yaoundé, with industrial and financial groups.

• Support national champions through a strategic guarantee fund, in the priority sectors.
• Impose strict local content in oil, gas and mining, for the transfer of technologies and practices to Cameroonian subcontracting.
• Strengthen partnerships between the state and the private sector, and concerted strategies to promote Made in Cameroon.
• Set a minimum quota of holdings by nationals in the subsidiaries of multinationals that set up, through the state, private partners or the stock exchange.
• Give priority to Cameroonian capital in the privatisation of public or semi-public firms.

• Develop a country brand around “The New Land of Sharing”, for tourism and foreign direct investment.
• Turn investment policy toward industrialisation and the local processing of natural resources.
• Optimise the granting and the control of land made available to agro-industrial projects.
• Remove visas for African visitors staying less than 90 days, in the service of integration and intra-African trade.

• Turn monetary and fiscal policy toward growth, industrialisation and exports.
• Reform the CFA franc without delay (name, peg currencies, exchange regime, convertibility, location of the printing works, withdrawal of foreign powers from the governing bodies), in concert with CEMAC, and create a pan-African digital currency.
• Build, with the countries of the franc zones, a strategy of financial and monetary independence in the medium term.

• Design a defence strategy centred on securing the borders and on autonomous governance of the national territory.
• Build an army close to the people, an actor of unity, justice and peace.
• Strengthen the role of the defence and security forces in scientific, technical and technological research.
• Restore military service for every citizen who enters higher education, for republican mixing and patriotism.
• Resolve the Anglophone crisis through an inclusive dialogue with every layer of the populations of the North-West and the South-West.
• Release prisoners of opinion immediately, in order to calm the climate.
• Redefine the agreements on military cooperation and assistance, in order to preserve the sovereignty and the security of the state.

• Deploy an active diplomacy that places Cameroon again among the voices of African integration.
• Develop a cultural diplomacy in the service of the country brand, of visibility and of attractiveness.
• Intensify economic diplomacy toward Nigeria and toward the engines of ECCAS, the DRC and Angola.

• Contribute to strengthening the role of the African Union in the historical, cultural, social and economic renaissance of the continent.
• Take the lead on harmonising the monetary and development policies of the regional economic communities, toward a pan-African financial and monetary market.
• Work toward the harmonisation of defence and security policies, and toward the financial autonomy of the African Union.

• Negotiate official development aid toward debt cancellation, the business climate, support for entrepreneurs and local subcontracting.
• Strengthen partnerships with the BRICS+, giving priority to technical cooperation with the emerging countries of the South.
• Adopt dual nationality without delay, by revising the 1968 code.
• Create an agency to support diaspora investment, in order to direct the savings of Cameroonians abroad toward public projects.

• Turn budget policy toward transparency in the management of public resources.
• Strictly reduce the cost of running the state, in order to redirect receipts toward social infrastructure: roads and transport, schools, health centres, social housing.
• Create a central office for the state’s vehicle and property stock, for the allocation and the control of these assets.

• Adopt a holistic governance, founded on African palaver, transparency and citizen participation.
• Consolidate the rule of law through the separation and the balance of powers, and through the protection of fundamental freedoms.
• Implement models of management that return sovereignty to the Cameroonian people.

The project is set on two axes: change the form of the state and truly delegate powers to the regions and the communes; transform the hyper-presidential regime into a semi-presidential one, and abolish the Senate.

On 18 January 1996, a law revises the Constitution of 2 June 1972, after the negotiations that liberalised the political frame in the early 1990s: multi-party politics, freedom of expression, freedom of the press. The 1996 Constitution enshrines freedoms and decentralisation, and announces the Constitutional Council, the High Court of Justice, the Senate and the decentralised local authorities. More than twenty years later, the fundamental text is only partly applied. The memorandum keeps four points to reconsider.

• Lower the civil and voting majority to 18.
• Elect the president of the Republic in two rounds, the term renewable only once.
• Abolish the Senate.
• Apply strictly the duty to declare assets.

Since the first multi-party elections of the early 1990s, the party notes a lack of transparency: a calendar left to the discretion of the executive, weak representation of civil society on the electoral council, a ban on Elecam publishing the trends, a lack of neutrality in the Constitutional Council. Trust is damaged, visible in hesitant registration and low turnout. The law of 19 April 2012 sets the length of terms, eligibility and the conditions imposed on voters.

The Constitution and the electoral code of the third Republic should come out of broad consultations, with all political formations and the widest range of civil society.

• Strict political neutrality of the members of the electoral council and of the Constitutional Council.
• A single ballot paper, pending full biometrics.
• Harmonise every elective term at five years.
• Hold the municipal and legislative elections, by direct universal suffrage, two years after the presidential election.
• Hold, one year later, the regional elections, those of the senior councillors to the town halls, and those of the delegates of the urban communities.
• Elect members of parliament by full proportional list voting.

On the threshold of the third Republic, the institutional model must make room for culture as a vehicle, so that history, traditions and values shape life in common. The National High Council of Cultures would be a consultative and independent body. Drawing on the models of organisation of traditional societies, it would propose mechanisms to implement and spread national culture, and to measure its effect on the institutions and on public life.

It would institutionalise traditional authority, on the principle of a council of elders, with a consultative role of the first rank. It would be made up of the representatives of all first-degree traditional chiefdoms. A law would create it, and its budget would be written into the state’s.

Article 31 of the code of June 1968 belongs to the history that follows the elimination of the last UPC leaders in the mid-1960s. Students abroad who supported a real independence organised as a counter-power. The administration ended up treating its diaspora as an enemy of the nation. Article 31 automatically withdraws Cameroonian nationality from any adult who acquires or keeps a foreign nationality.

Acquiring another nationality most often answers social and economic reasons: social security, scholarships, care, school fees, employment, mobility. Many continue to carry the green, the red and the gold, and to create value at home. For more than twenty years, the diaspora has asked for a revision of the 1968 code in order to recognise dual nationality. Such a measure would reduce the visa receipts of the embassies. It remains profitable for the economy. The time has come to associate all Cameroonians, without discrimination, with the building of a nation of social justice and shared prosperity.