Lesotho: Cracks Emerge in the ABC-DC Coalition

1 December 2020

SIX months after its establishment, the Moeketsi Majoro-led governing coalition faces the biggest test to cohesion. This as the two biggest coalition partners, Dr Majoro's All Basotho Convention (ABC) and Deputy Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu's Democratic Congress (DC) cross swords over the judiciary's decision to prosecute former Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing and current Development Planning Minister Selibe Mochoboroane for treason.

All along the two parties have enjoyed a seemingly solid relationship. The only threats to the stability of the coalition have come from within the fractious ABC whose members remain split between two main camps backing party leader Thomas Thabane and his deputy, Professor Nqosa Mahao.

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