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Despite 17 other candidates, rights groups say they are not serious contenders and that Hassan is effectively running unopposed after her real challengers were barred.

Biya became Cameroon's second president since independence in the 1960s in the 1984 election, when he ran unopposed and won 100 percent of the vote.

As a result, Doku's unorthodox positioning - having vacated his flank - allowed him to pick up the ball unopposed.

He had run unopposed at the last election, his fourth.

“Back in 2017, the Democrats let Republican justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court go completely unopposed, because they were so demoralized that they had lost with Wisconsin in ‘16,” Coleman said.