Politics
Lesotho election: Opposition and PM party in dead heat
Monday, May 28, 2012
The party of Lesotho’s longtime prime minister is just behind the main opposition as vote counting nears completion for the southern African country’s parliamentary elections.
With results from 64 of 80 constituencies counted Monday afternoon, the Independent Electoral Commission says the All Basotho Convention has 26 seats and Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s Democratic Congress has 25. Shortly before Saturday’s vote, Mosisili broke away from the Lesotho Congress for Democracy, which had 12 seats while another opposition party had one Monday afternoon. Final results are expected Tuesday.
The Lesotho Congress for Democracy under Mosisili won elections in 1998, 2002 and 2007.
Cpoyright 2012 The Associated Press.