The Cameroon political field “abroad” through rivalries of political parties

The granting of the right to vote to Cameroonian emigrants in July 2011 has brought out a competition between Cameroonian political parties, through their foreign representations that ensure a continuous presence but also through their leaders who go there regularly. It is a transnationalization of the political game that demonstrates the reorganization of the party system in Cameroon. However, it testifies the continuity of political parties as an object of study: they remain political enterprises engaged in a competition for the acquisition and the conservation of power. This is apparent from the comparative analysis between the CPDM, the ruling party, and the opposition MRC, whose conquest of the voices of the emigrant electorate in Europe reveals their differentiated partisan strategies in the competition for the exercise of power in Cameroon.