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Lesotho,formally the Kingdom of Lesotho,is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. As an enclave of South Africa,with which it shares a 1,106 km border,it is the only sovereign enclave in the world outside of the Italian Peninsula. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the highest peak in Southern Africa. It has an area of over 30,000 km2 (11,600 sq mi) and has a population of about 2 million. Its capital and largest city is Maseru.
The history of people living in the area now known as Lesotho goes back as many as 400 years. Present Lesotho emerged as a single polity under King Moshoeshoe I in 1822. Under Moshoeshoe I,Basotho joined other clans in their struggle against the Lifaqane associated with famine and the reign of Shaka Zulu from 1818 to 1828.
Politics of Lesotho takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy,whereby the Prime Minister of Lesotho is the head of government,and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of Parliament,the Senate and the National Assembly. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
Lesotho elects a legislature on the national level. The Parliament has two chambers:the National Assembly with 120 members,elected for a five-year term by Mixed Member Proportional Representation,80 of which in single-seat constituencies;and the Senate,with 33 nominated members.
The Basotho National Party is a political party in Lesotho,founded in 1959 in colonial Basutoland as the Basutoland National Party by Leabua Jonathan. He was Prime Minister from the 1965 general election until the 1986 coup d'état.
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General elections were held in Lesotho on 28 February 2015 for all 120 seats of the National Assembly,the lower house of the Parliament of Lesotho,more than two years ahead of schedule due to the 2014 political crisis. Following mediation facilitated by the Southern African Development Community (SADC),King Letsie III on the advice of the incumbent Prime Minister Tom Thabane,dissolved the Eighth Parliament and called a snap election.
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Tefo Mapesela is a Mosotho accountant and politician who serves as the leader of the Basotho Patriotic Party. He has been a proportional representation member of the National Assembly since April 2023,after previously serving as the legislator for Mokhotlong No. 79 constituency from 2015 until 2022. A former member of the All Basotho Convention,Mapesela served as the Minister of Trade and Industry from 2017 until 2018,as the Minister of Defence and National Security from 2018 to 2020 and as the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security between 2020 and 2021.
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- ↑ MENAFN. "MP dumps party, joins Matekane". menafn.com. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ "Mokitimi elected second time President of Senate". Metro News. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ "New faces, as new ministers take oath". Metro News. Retrieved 2023-12-08.