Dakole Daïssala (15 April 1943 – 9 August 2022)[1] was a Cameroonian politician and the President of the Movement for the Defence of the Republic (MDR), a political party based in Cameroon's Far North Region.
[18] Along with four other opposition parties, including the Social Democratic Front (SDF), the MDR signed a statement on 23 November 2000 calling for the creation of an independent electoral commission and denouncing the government's "contemptuous indifference with respect to the requirement of free, fair and transparent elections".
[20] On 13 January 2001, Daïssala and various other party leaders participated in an unauthorised protest in Yaoundé against the National Election Observatory, believing that it would not be an impartial body.
[21] Following the June 2002 parliamentary election, Daïssala and four other notable northern politicians released a statement in July, in which they alleged electoral fraud and announced the formation of a "resistance front".
They warned that the RDPC was moving the country back to single-party rule and called on politicians "to transcend any divergence, selfishness and personal ambition in order to create a movement capable of saving Cameroon from collapse".
[12][24] As Minister of Transport, Daïssala signed an open skies agreement with United States Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer on 16 February 2006, thereby permitting mutual unrestricted air travel between the two countries.
[26] However, the MDR failed to win any National Assembly seats in the 2007 election,[3] and Daïssala was defeated in Mayo-Kani South constituency.
[8] Daïssala and the MDR supported the 2008 constitutional revision that removed the presidential two-term limit, thereby permitting Biya to run for another term in 2011.