EPISODE · Mar 3, 2017 · 4 MIN
Lesotho on brink of political crisis, after vote of no confidence of PM
from General Podcast · host Channel Africa
Lesotho is once again teetering on the brink of a political crisis after lawmakers in the Mountain Kingdom voted to remove Prime Minister Phakaditha Mosisidi from power. The vote against Pakaditha Mosisidi, head of a coalition government, came two years after his Democratic Congress ousted former prime minister Thomas Thabane by uniting with smaller parties. Following the vote against him in parliament, Mosisidi has the option of stepping down or advise the country's monarch King Letsie III, to dissolve parliament and call for elections. Channel Africa spoke Professor Roger Southall, Emeritus Professor in Sociology at WITS University about the vote against Prime Minister Mosisidi and what it means for Lesotho's body politics..
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