Nyval hotar i Lesotho efter misstroendeförklaring
Lesotho kan stå inför en regeringskris sedan en parlamentsledamot från premiärminister Thomas Thabanes eget parti ABC har väckt misstroende mot Thabane, skriver AFP.
Även oppositionsledaren Motlalentoa Letsosa har ställt sig bakom misstroendet. I den formella misstroendeförklaringen framgår det inte varför misstroendet väcks men mycket tyder på att skälet är missnöje med att den 80-årige premiärministern låtit sin betydligt yngre fru få allt för stor inflytande över makten.
Enligt försvarsminister Tefo Mapesela kommer Thabane nu troligen att utlysa nyval.
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Tom Thabane
Wikipedia (en)
Thomas Motsoahae "Tom" Thabane (born 28 May 1939) is a Mosotho politician who has been Prime Minister of Lesotho since June 2017. Previously he was Prime Minister from June 2012 to March 2015. He is leader of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) political party.
Thabane served in the government of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili from 1998 to 2006, and at the time, was a member of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), but in 2006 he split from the LCD and launched the ABC. After more than five years in opposition, he built a coalition of 12 parties in the wake of the May 2012 parliamentary election and was appointed Prime Minister.
In the February 2015 parliamentary election, the All Basotho Convention was democratically removed from power by a seven-party coalition led by his rival and predecessor, Pakalitha Mosisili, although the ABC did win the highest number of constituencies. Two months later, Thabane fled to South Africa with two other opposition leaders, claiming that their lives were in danger. They returned to Lesotho on 12 February 2017 in order to participate in a parliamentary vote of no confidence that unseated Prime Minister Mosisili.
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