Cameroon: The RDPC, the beacon that must guide Cameroon through the storm
The beginning of the new seven-year presidential term is taking place in a national context marked by immense expectations and multifaceted challenges. These turbulent early days naturally place the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (RDPC) in the spotlight.
As the party carrying the presidential project, its posture and conduct are of crucial symbolic and practical importance. Now more than ever, the necessity for its members to lead by example is evident.
The face the RDPC must present to the Cameroonian people is threefold: united, calming, and focused.
A façade of unity is no longer sufficient; it must be tangible, lived, and visible in the words and actions of all its members and officials.
This unity is forged around the leader as an institutional pillar, but above all around the party’s ideals and objectives, as outlined in its societal project.
Internal strife, unchecked personal ambitions, and regional or generational divides must imperatively give way to strategic cohesion.
A calming influence is equally crucial. Within a national political landscape where tensions are real, the RDPC has a duty to be a factor of stability and serenity.
Its discourse must be unifying, its methods must be irreproachable, and its openness to internal dialogue must be constructive.
A party that is calm within itself can better contribute to calming the nation. This internal serenity is the essential condition for effective and credible public action.
Focus on the objectives of the seven-year term is the cornerstone of this approach. The members and officials of the RDPC, whether in government, parliament, the administration, or on the ground, must embody and primarily serve the major orientations defined for this term, notably the reinforcement of security, inclusive economic revival, the improvement of social services, and advances in decentralization.
Every action, every public statement, must be measured against its contribution to these national goals.
Those who align themselves with the RDPC, at all levels, shoulder a historical responsibility. They must be models of discipline, self-sacrifice, and devotion to the public cause.
To be a model is to prioritize the general interest over particular interests, to favor silent and effective work over sterile controversies, to be the first relay of the population’s concerns to the party institutions, and the first to explain public policies to the citizens.
Jean-Robert TCHANDY
