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Biya subsequently won the October 1992 presidential election with about 40 % of the vote, ahead of John Fru Ndi of the Social Democratic Front ( SDF ), who won about 36 %.
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Biya and subsequently
The CPDM gained 116 of the 180 seats in the May 1997 parliamentary election ( it initially won 109 seats, but it subsequently won in the three constituencies where the election was held over again in August, gaining seven more seats ) and in the October 1997 presidential election, Biya received 92. 6 % of the vote amidst an opposition boycott.
Biya was subsequently elected party chief at a special party congress in September.
In February 1984 he was sentenced to death in absentia for alleged involvement in the 1983 coup plot, although the sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment by Biya.
Biya and won
Because the government refused to consider opposition demands for an independent election commission, the three major opposition parties boycotted the October 1997 presidential election, which Biya easily won.
According to official results, Biya won the first multiparty presidential election, held on 11 October 1992, with about 40 % of the vote ; the second placed candidate, John Fru Ndi of the opposition Social Democratic Front ( SDF ), officially received about 36 %.
Biya won another seven-year term in the presidential election of 11 October 2004, officially taking 70. 92 percent of the vote, although the opposition alleged widespread fraud.
In the presidential election held on 11 October 2004, Biya won 70. 9 % of the vote.
In the presidential election held on 11 October 2004, Fru Ndi stood again as the SDF candidate and won 17. 4 % of the vote according to official results, far behind Biya.
In the October 1992 presidential election, he made a strong showing against President Paul Biya, losing with 36 % of the vote against Biya's 40 % according to official results ( in Fru Ndi's stronghold, Northwest Province, he officially won 86. 3 %).
Biya and October
In the October 1997 presidential election, which was boycotted by the main opposition parties, Biya was re-elected with 92. 6 percent of the vote ; he was sworn in on 3 November.
In presidential elections held in October 2011, Biya secured a sixth term in office, polling 77. 9 % of votes cast.
The SDF accused Biya of stealing the election, but Biya was reelected to his post as head of the RDCP / CPDM in October 1995.
Fru Ndi, the SDF candidate in the October 1992 presidential election, received about 36 % of the vote against about 40 % for incumbent President Paul Biya, according to official results.
Fru Ndi was the SDF candidate in the October 2004 presidential election ; according to official results, he took second place with 17. 40 % of the vote against 70. 92 % for Biya.
On Monday, October 17, 2011 few days after the Cameroon presidential elections, John Fru Ndi alongside other presidential candidates called an emergency meeting to tell Paul Biya to annul the elections.
Biya and 1992
After Jeanne-Irène Biya died on 29 July 1992, Paul Biya married Chantal Biya ( 38 years Paul's junior ) on 23 April 1994, and he has had two more children with her.
In 1992, Fon Gorji-Dinka, on behalf of the state of Republic of Ambazonia filed a lawsuit against the Republic of Cameroon and President Paul Biya on the main charge of the Republic of Cameroon's illegal and forcible occupation since the 1984 dissolution of the United Republic of Cameroon and the declaration of the Republic of Ambazonia.
Jeanne-Irène Biya ( 1935-July 29, 1992 ) was the former First Lady of Cameroon and first wife of Paul Biya, who has served as the President of Cameroon since 1982.
President Paul Biya later appointed him as Prime Minister on 9 April 1992, following the March 1992 parliamentary election.
Biya and presidential
In November 1983, Biya announced that the next presidential election would be held on 14 January 1984 ; it had been previously scheduled for 1985.
Adding to this, the move was seen as an attempt by Biya to shore-up support for the next presidential election in 2011.
This sentiment manifested most recently in the 2004 presidential election when the incumbent, Paul Biya, failed to carry the town of Abong-Mbang.
An attempted coup d ' état occurred in Cameroon in 1984 ; presidential palace guards unsuccessfully tried to overthrow President Paul Biya, resulting in fighting that began on April 6, 1984 and ended several days later.
In early April 1984, President Biya ordered a transfer of all presidential palace guards who came from the predominantly Muslim north, probably because he had been alerted to a coup plot involving those soldiers.
Biya and election
He describes Cameroon's electoral process in these terms: " Every few years, Biya stages an election to justify his continuing reign, but these elections have no credibility.
* Presidential election, 2004: Paul Biya ( RDPC ) 70. 9 %
After the election, Fru Ndi said that Biya should recognize him as the official leader of the opposition.
Biya and with
The lake is drained through a single outlet, the Biya River, which, after its confluence with the Katun River, forms one of Siberia's largest rivers, the Ob River.
Biysk () is a city in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the Biya River not far from its confluence with the Katun River.
Biya has maintained Cameroon's close relationship with France, Cameroon's former colonial ruler.
He married Jeanne-Irène Biya, who did not have any children, though she adopted Franck Biya who was born from a relationship of Paul Biya with another woman.
In February 1984, Ahidjo was put on trial in absentia for alleged involvement in a 1983 coup plot, along with two others ; they were sentenced to death, although Biya commuted their sentences to life in prison, a gesture seen by many as a sign of weakness.
In his victory speech, Biya promised to stimulate growth and create jobs with a programme of public works which would " transform our country into a vast construction site ".
" Tyrants, the World's 20 Worst Living Dictators ", by David Wallechinsky, ranked Biya with three others commonly in sub-Saharan Africa: Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, and King Mswati of Swaziland.
In fact, Biya is credited with a creative innovation in the world of phony elections.
By 2000, Biya had shored up his government by forming a coalition with the northern-based UNDP, which had 13 Assembly seats, and with the UPC, which had one seat.
However, in 1990, he received a phone call from the President of Cameroon Paul Biya, who pleaded with him to come out of retirement and rejoin the national team.
The post of Secretary-General of the Presidency was historically very powerful, but Oyono's stint in the office was associated with a weakening of it under President Biya ; significantly, Oyono was moved from the Secretariat-General to an ordinary ministry — effectively a demotion.
In 2008, the President of the Republic of Cameroon, Paul Biya, signed decrees abolishing " Provinces " and replacing them with " Regions ".
In 2008, the President of the Republic of Cameroon, President Paul Biya signed decrees abolishing " Provinces " and replacing them with " Regions ".
In 2008, the President of the Republic of Cameroon, President Paul Biya signed decrees abolishing " Provinces " and replacing them with " Regions ".
In 2008, the President of the Republic of Cameroon, President Paul Biya signed decrees abolishing " Provinces " and replacing them with " Regions ".
Biya enjoys a great deal of political support from the Centre's Beti majority, thanks in part to his policy of staffing the government and government-owned businesses with plenty of representatives of this ethnic group.
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