Cape Town, South Africa – In June, Lesotho’s deputy prime minister and leader of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) Mothetjoa Metsing announced he would be removing his party from a three-way political coalition that had brought Prime Minister Thomas Thabane to power two-years earlier.
“We have decided that we can no longer endure the humiliation that the Honourable Dr Thabane is inflicting upon the LCD by his unilateral and undemocratic conduct,” Metsing told reporters at a press conference.
Just a day earlier, Thabane himself announced a nine-month suspension of parliament, effectively escaping a no-confidence vote that would have seen him ousted…
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