Lesotho's opposition parties have put an end to the fourteen-year rule of Phakalitha Mosisili by forging an uneasy coalition, aided by a large chuck of the kingdom's voters shifting support away from the incumbent's personality cult politics.
The change in part signals an increase in support to political parties that place policy above personality. Mosisili's newly formed Democratic Congress failed to win the 61 or more seats needed to form a government in the 120-seat parliament.
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