{"id":184654,"date":"2024-11-15T07:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T05:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-want-parliament-to-heed-voters-demands-but-see-mps-as-serving-their-own-interests\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T07:38:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T05:38:28","slug":"lesotho-basotho-want-parliament-to-heed-voters-demands-but-see-mps-as-serving-their-own-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-want-parliament-to-heed-voters-demands-but-see-mps-as-serving-their-own-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Basotho Want Parliament to Heed Voters&#8217; Demands but See MPs As Serving Their Own Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Most citizens say representatives never listen to ordinary people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About six in 10 Basotho say that Parliament, not the prime minister, should make laws (60%) and that MPs should ensure that the prime minister accounts for how his government spends taxpayers&#8217; money (62%).<\/li>\n<li>More than eight in 10 citizens (83%) want MPs to act in accordance with voters&#8217; demands rather than their own ideas.<\/li>\n<li>But more than two-thirds (69%) of respondents say MPs never listen to ordinary citizens.<\/li>\n<p>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411150024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most citizens say representatives never listen to ordinary people. Key findings About six in 10 Basotho say that Parliament, not the prime minister, should make laws (60%) and that MPs should ensure that the prime minister accounts for how his government spends taxpayers&#8217; money (62%). More than eight in 10 citizens (83%) want MPs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,18241,6979,15812,19892,4717,1407,7260,257,2412,17502,254,7243],"class_list":["post-184654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basotho","tag-demands","tag-heed","tag-interests","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-serving","tag-south-africa-today","tag-voters"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}