Lesotho’s Prime Minister lost a no-confidence vote in parliament
on Wednesday, deepening political uncertainty in the southern Africa kingdom.
Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili of the Democratic Congress
(DC) has headed a coalition government since the ouster of former Prime
Minister Thomas Thabane’s All Basotho Congress (ABC)
two years ago, following a snap election that was called in an effort to end
Lesotho’s power struggles.
The law makers voted in favour of replacing Mosisili with
Monyane Moleleki whose Alliance of Democrats party split from the Democratic
Congress last year.
According to media reports, the prime minister has three days to
either resign in favour of Moleleki or advise His Majesty King Letsie III, to call
snap elections which would be held within three months.
But according Mosisili’s political adviser Fako Lokoti, the
premier would not step aside.
He told a local radio station, “He will continue to be prime
minister until we go for elections.”
Lesotho’s big brother South Africa and the Southern African
Development Community (SADC) bloc have repeatedly
called for peaceful political reforms in the country.
The last two elections have not produced a winner with clear
majority.
The land-locked southern Africa nation of two million people is
among the world’s poorest and has been hit by several coups since independence
in 1966.
-Africanews
AEP
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