Lesotho citizens voted in a parliamentary election on Friday that political analysts said could see the ruling party lose power after years of political instability that the southern African mountain kingdom's lawmakers have failed to resolve.
The election has gone ahead despite a deadlock in parliament on a whole gamut of major constitutional reforms that were meant to be enacted ahead of the vote in order to bring order to Lesotho's fractious politics.
"The future of Basotho is in their hands. RFP is ready to govern," Matekane said while casting a vote in his hometown of Mantsonyane.Speaking to Reuters before polls opened, Lesotho political analyst Lefu Thaela said he thought the ruling ABC would lose the elections and that"the DC and RFP will be neck-and-neck".
Surrounded on all sides by South African mountains, Lesotho's high-altitude springs provide vital freshwater to its parched neighbour, supplying the commercial hub Johannesburg. The reforms were meant to make Lesotho less prone to political logjams but got stuck in one themselves.
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