New Party Surges Ahead in Early Election Results allafrica: Lesotho
For a small nation of just over two million people, comprising one ethnic group speaking the same language and led by a respected constitutional monarch whose family has ruled for nearly two centuries, party politics in Lesotho has to date been notoriously divisive and unstable.
sees the election as a four-horse race pitting outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu's Democratic Congress and his coalition partner Nkaku Kabi's All Basotho Convention against Professor Nqosa Mahao's Basotho Action Party and Matekane's party. The RFP counts among its candidates
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