{"id":216668,"date":"2025-12-14T22:22:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-iec-cracks-whip-on-rogue-parties\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:22:47","slug":"lesotho-iec-cracks-whip-on-rogue-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-iec-cracks-whip-on-rogue-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: IEC Cracks Whip On Rogue Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>&#8230;as five more parties get struck off the roll<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><strong>T<\/strong>HE Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has deregistered five more political parties for failing to comply with the National Assembly Electoral Act of 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">This latest purge follows the delisting of four parties last week, bringing the total number of political organisations removed from the roll this year to 12. Lesotho now remains with 38 registered parties from the 65 which were registered in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">In a statement issued yesterday, the Director&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120389.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>&#8230;as five more parties get struck off the roll THE Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has deregistered five more political parties for failing to comply with the National Assembly Electoral Act of 2011. This latest purge follows the delisting of four parties last week, bringing the total number of political organisations removed from the roll this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00410547:241c4ca232ed104c99d75133c5ad6a50:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,13814,10627,4717,1407,257,6744,14472,254,13655],"class_list":["post-216668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cracks","tag-iec","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-parties","tag-rogue","tag-south-africa-today","tag-whip"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00410547:241c4ca232ed104c99d75133c5ad6a50:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216668","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=216668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}