Lesotho’s parliamentary elections were going calmly and smoothly on Friday across the mountainous kingdom’s 3,151 polling stations, many of them remote.
One of these is the wildcard in the elections, the very recently formed Revolution for Prosperity party led by businessman Sam Matekane, reputed to be a billionaire. The other three frontrunners are the more familiar Democratic Congress
An official from the Lesotho Independent Electoral Commission at work on election day at St Joseph Primary School in Koro-Koro. At Mokema Primary School in the village of Mokema to the north of Koro-Koro there were more voters but voting also went smoothly.The IEC officials said they expected to announce the final results by about Tuesday. Results at individual polling stations should be posted soon after voting closes at 5pm, giving a rough idea of the trend. But because of Lesotho’s “rocky terrain” and complicated electoral system, collating final results would take three or four days, they said.
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