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LESOTHO’S KING DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT, ANNOUNCES FRESH ELECTIONS
Lesotho’s King dissolves parliament, announces fresh elections
09 March 2017 | 10:32

Lesotho’s King Letsie III on Tuesday dissolved parliament and will shortly set an election date, the deputy prime minister said.
In a statement aired on the state-run radio, Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing said “We are here to announce that His Majesty has accepted the prime minister’s advice to dissolve parliament and the nation will be updated on an election date within four days.”
 

The Right Honorable the  Prime Minister lost a no-confidence vote in parliament last week, two years after his Democratic Congress (DC) ousted former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane.
Political analysts , say the Kingdom now faces a period of political instability.

Its last two elections failed to produce a winner with a clear majority.
The land-locked former British protectorate known as Basutoland before independence is among the world’s poorest nati



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