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The Revolution for Prosperity party announces a coalition agreement to form a government in Lesotho

Oct. 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Revolution for Prosperity party (RFP), winner of the elections held last week in Lesotho, announced on Tuesday a coalition agreement with two other formations to form a government, once guaranteed that they have the majority of seats in the Parliament.

The leader of the RFP, Sam Matekane, has indicated that the agreement has been closed with the Alliance of Democrats, headed by Monyane Moleleki, and the Movement for Democratic Change, Selibe Mochoboroane.

Thus, he has indicated that achieving “a stable government” is the main objective of the coalition, which thus obtains 65 of the 120 seats in Parliament — 56 from the RFP, five from the Alliance of Democrats and four from the Movement for Change Economic–.

Matekane has also highlighted that the coalition will present a report on its actions once the first hundred days of government action are completed, according to the news portal The Reporter.

For his part, the vice president of the Alliance of Democrats, Ntoi Rpapa, has argued that the agreement to form the coalition has been achieved because these three formations “agree on very important issues that are part of their political programs.”

The official results, published on Monday, show that the All Basoto Convention (ABC) party, which won the 2017 elections, has gone from 48 to eight seats, weighed down by the scandal that led to its then leader, Thomas Thabane, to leave office in 2020.

Thabane was forced to resign in May 2020 after several months of political crisis in the African country due to his alleged involvement in the murder of his wife in 2017, two days before he was sworn in, a process in which he was accused his current wife, Maesaiah Thabane.

After Thabane’s resignation –forced by the withdrawal of support from his coalition partners–, the then Minister of Finance, Moeketsi Majoro, was appointed as Prime Minister, after which a new Government was formed headed by the ABC, although the deepening of the economic crisis has seriously damaged the image of the party.

Lesotho, a country totally surrounded by South Africa that has some 2.2 million inhabitants, has been marked by political instability in recent years that has caused the formation and fall of various political coalitions.

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