Paul Biya has received 53.66% of the votes cast in Cameroon’s October 12 presidential election, according to official results Cameroon’s incumbent president, Paul Biya, has been officially declared the winner of the Central African country’s recent election, securing a new seven-year term that will keep him in office until he is nearly 100. The Constitutional Council announced Monday that Biya won 53.66% of the vote in the October 12 election, while his main challenger, Issa Tchiroma Bakary,