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In addition there is a perverse effect of the boycott in the context for example of the “dead cities” in the English-speaking part of Cameroon, the slowdown in commercial activities has minor consequences for the administration quarreled, and serious outcomes for the population who loses the means to gather currency for traders and manufactured goods and food products for customers; while the low taxation on this kind of activity does not in any way harm the central administration, which remains master of the most coveted resources such as oil. There would be a change of tone if the secessionist rebels, if they stormed oil refineries in these areas, thereby harming both the central administration and its pimps, which are the foreign multinationals that exploit these resources.
The boycott in general does not have a legal framework that can become law. However, so far, the only exception comes from Romania where in 2012 in a referendum on the legitimacy of the presidential term of Traian Basescu, the majority of Romanians, 86% according to a survey called for his dismissal, because of the crisis in which the country had been plunged by the austerity measures, dictated by the European Union. Only 46% of the voters went to polls, the vote was canceled
because they had not reached the 50% mark, and Basescu saved his post.
If the abstentions exceeded 50% in an election, creating a major condition leading to the cancelation of the poll, this would pose a major problem directly related to the rejection of the political class. Why should elections in one country be shunned while those who shun are enough to find a candidate to defend their ideals? The boycott or massive non-participation in the elections that we see more and more, including in the Western democracies, is an admission of failure of democracy, because if peoples refuse to interfere with what they now consider as a political masquerade, it implies that the system is far from satisfying them, in their aspiration of social and economic wellbeing.
In Third World countries, if there are monolithic dictatorships that cling to power and discourage any attempt to regime change, in the West the political class formatted by one of the oldest molds, remains in business for the same results. The preservation of an old regime, through the change of faces.
In the United States, for example, for more than two hundred years, only two political parties control the White House and the Congress, and that is anything but political stagnation.
From a moral and political point of view, boycott, blank vote, or abstention have a value, especially in the influence of the masses towards the stunted legitimacy of the leaders, who since then govern with a minority of votes expressed in their favor (in France the current president has a legitimacy of about 30% if one considers, those who voted in his favor).
From a legal point of view a poll despite a high rate of abstention or boycott, remains valid, because the principle that "who does not say word consents" is applied. In democracies, the best way to be heard is to express oneself at the ballot box instead of staying home on polling day or storming the streets to contest an election you refused to participate.
The boycott forces, in general must make prerequisites to their participation in elections. Prerequisites such as reviewing the constitution or the electoral code to ensure fairness when it