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Significance
Biya's government insists that polling will proceed as planned, despite threats from separatist anglophone groups to disrupt the vote in both areas.
Impacts
The greatest medium-term challenge facing the CPDM may be a succession struggle to replace the 85-year-old Biya in 2025.
Biya may use the 2019 legislative polls to appoint some more token anglophones to government, yet this will gain little regional support.
Regional concerns may grow over security ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in 2019.
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2018
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