Six months after Cameroon's parliament created the office of vice-president, President Paul Biya has not named anyone to the post.
Parliament, convened in Congress, adopted the text on 4 April 2026 and the president promulgated it on 14 April 2026. The law gives the head of state the power to appoint and dismiss his vice-president.
Names have circulated in the press since then, and the MRC has called the revision unconstitutional, while other opposition leaders have pressed for the post to be filled. Cabral Libii of the PCRN warned that leaving it vacant carries risks for the country, pointing to a head of state he described as increasingly tired and absent. On 12 June 2026, a man now in custody tried to have a fake decree naming a vice-president read on national radio.
The vacancy leaves the line of succession undefined at a time when the question of who follows Biya dominates political discussion in Cameroon.