The bill was tabled at the National Assembly during the second plenary sitting of the first ordinary session of parliament for the year 2008.
The plenary sitting was interrupted by the parliamentary group of the main opposition party the Social Democratic Front (SDF).
SDF MPs protested parliament�s indifference to what they claim was police harassment of one of theirs, recently. Honourable Nintcheu, SDF, Member of Parliament for Wouri, is said to have been arrested, questioned for nine hours and his passport seized by the forces of law and order.
The House Speaker, Cavaye Yeguie Gibril, in spite of the shout and boos from the SDF parliamentarians, succeeded in tabling the five articled bill which had earlier been scrutinised by the chairman�s conference.
The bill proposes the amendment of the 1996 constitution, stating that the President of the republic be re-elected for a seven year term, renewable. The number of renewable terms not specified.
The president of the SENATE temporally takes over the presidency in case of vacancy. He shall organise fresh elections in the country.
According to the same bill, elections have to be organised within a minimum period of 20 days and maximum period of 120 days in case of vacancy.