Revolution for Prosperity wins Lesotho elections but observers flag irregularities - The RFP, formed by businessman Sam Matekane in March this year, won the country's election, but failed to gain an outright majority
Lesotho’s newly established party, Revolution for Prosperity , has won the country’s election, but failed to gain an outright majority.
The RFP will band together with other parties to reach 60 plus one seats required to form a coalition government. There were 87 international observers for the 10 districts made up of 80 constituencies and 371 of the 3 149 polling stations were visited.expressed in the media. The IEC denied the allegations and threatened anyone spreading inaccurate information with civil action,” Corrao said.
Although acknowledging the efforts of the IEC in fulfilling its mandate, Frans Kapofi, head of the SADC observation mission, said they noted the concerns regarding inaccuracies in the first certified voters’ roll published after the voters’ verification exercise. Motsamai added that names of voters were missing and party agents had lists that were different from those held by the IEC staff. In some cases, voters’ names did not appear on the IEC held voters’ roll and that of the party agents yet their names appeared in the IEC website.
Corrao said the IEC’s poor human and financial resources, coupled with the large number of registered parties, made it difficult for it to regulate campaigning and party funding.to the IEC any donation exceeding M200 000 but no declaration has been made sinceHe said foreign funding for campaign purposes, authorised by law, puts the country at risk of foreign influence and is not in line with international good practice for democratic elections.
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