While the ruling party officials praise the application of this principle in different administrative competitions organized in Cameroon, the opposition criticizes this selection model.

The latest events that surrounded the results of the competition into professional masters in international Relations, diplomacy at the Institute of International Relations of Cameroon (IRIC) allowed us to put back on the table, the debate around the application of the principle of regional balance in the entrance examination in higher institutions in Cameroon.

Evariste Fopoussi, former member of the Social Democratic Front in the National Assembly stated; "When applying the principle of regional balance in a competition, you will see, it is not to the Region that this will be applied but on the students, i.e., to the barons, the sons of people who support the regime in the region attributed...".

With us, we are dealt with based on "ethnicentrism", it was "clientelised" Noted the head of the main opposition party, questioned by our colleagues from Radio Equinoxe.

He was supported on this view by Cyrille Sam Mbaka, Vice President of the Democratic Union of Cameroon (DUC), based on the latest happenings around the entrance examination into the Institute of International Relations of Cameroon (IRIC) to question the application of this policy.

"Now, at the level of results that is observed, we should consider that Cameroon has ten regions, there's nothing that matches the regional balance which you speak of.

The evil one can do to a child who has viewed a list with his name and afterwards, have them see their names off the list is not fair. "These considerations cannot remove the resentment of this child who sees his name disappear from the list", he said.

However, in the ranks of the CPDM, advantage in power, it is not question of calling into question the application of this policy whose aim is to ensure the cohesion and balance within Cameroonian populations. "If this was not applied, it would not be good.

It is rather dangerous in Africa that those originating from a single region is dominant in a given activity", supported Ayssi Beryl Jean, militant of the CPDM.