Sam Matekane says he aims to secure an 'outright win' in the country's parliamentary elections on Friday.
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Analysts expect the vote to usher in yet another coalition, unlikely to tackle poverty and instability in the mountainous country of about two million people. A constitutional monarchy where the king has no formal power, it has long been beset by political turmoil that has hampered development.Matekane says he hopes to turn things around, bringing his business skills to the government to relaunch the economy and tackle public debt and unemployment.
He does not want to state his worth, but his affluence is on display at his office on the 6th floor of a building in the centre of Maseru, a sleepy city of 350,000 people.
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