The quadripartite coalition under which the Prime Minister of Lesotho Thomas Thabane was elected, collapsed on Monday, 11 May 2020 causing the latter to have to leave on 22 May 2020.
The President of the National Assembly, Sephiri Motanyane, accepted an agreement between the CBA and the Democratic Congress (DC) to form a coalition government.
According to local media, Deputy Prime Minister Monyane Moleleki’s Alliance of Democrats (AD) has expressed interest in being part of this coalition.
Motanyane said the government is in transition since the collapse of the government coalition that left Thabane in office, when he no longer has the number of seats required to continue governing.
“We have verified that the quadripartite coalition agreement has been terminated and that a new government has been formed,” Motanyane announced in parliament.
He revealed that the Prime Minister, currently under siege on all sides, is due to step down on May 22.
In the 2017 election, the CBA won fifty seats in Parliament, far from the sixty-one seats needed for a party to govern alone, without the need for a one-hundred and twenty-one seat coalition in Parliament. This had forced Thabane to form a coalition with the Alliance of Democrats (AD), the National Basotho Party (BNP) and the Reformed Congress of Lesotho (RCL) to have a majority.
However, dividing lines have appeared within the coalition in recent months, amid allegations of assassination against the Prime Minister, in a case relating to the 2017 murder of his former wife.
– APA
