Economic Evaluation of the Presidential Candidates Programmes 2025 in Cameroun

Description

Cameroon is preparing to experience the 2025 presidential election in an environment marked by persistent economic and social challenges. The national economy remains dominated by a fragile and poorly diversified productive structure, largely dependent on raw materials and therefore vulnerable to external shocks. At the same time, social needs remain pressing, whether in employment, education, health or social protection. In addition to these challenges, there are constraints related to governance, public debt sustainability, and institutional capacity to carry out large-scale structural reforms. The 2025 elections are therefore a pivotal moment to steer the country’s trajectory towards a productive, inclusive and sustainable transformation.

The objective of the study is to evaluate the economic programs of the twelve candidates, comparing them according to their relevance to national needs, their feasibility with regard to budgetary and institutional constraints, their expected impact on the economy and society, as well as their credibility in terms of implementation capacity. The aim is to provide citizens and decision makers with an objective tool to inform public debate and enable a better-informed electoral choice.

To achieve this, the approach adopted was deliberately simple and understandable. It consisted of examining the available electoral programmes, supplemented by some reliable references from national and international bodies, in order to verify the coherence of the proposals. Each programme was read and divided into concrete proposals which were grouped into major sectors of economic and social life. These proposals were then assessed according to five basic elements: their relevance, i.e. whether or not they met the real needs of the country; their feasibility, i.e. the practical possibility of implementing them; their impact, i.e. the expected effects on the economy and society; the capacity of the institutions to carry them out and finally, the experience that represents the life of the political party. Each item was rated on a simple scale, and the results were summed to give an overall score per candidate. This method does not claim to capture all