Africa-Press – Lesotho. The Lesotho Youth for Reforms (LYFR) has provided a youth perspective on the country’s re-election where they express their concern about the way the Lesotho government is handling the re-election issues.
is in the month of April. Speaking at a press conference last week, LYFR Representative Helpo Leina said LYFR is a group of young people from different walks of life. He said these categories include youth, civil society, political parties, businesses, schools and youth who are not part of any group.
“As the LYFR, we are appealing to the government to refrain from making itself the authority on national re-election issues when such issues are directly controlled by parliament,” he said.
He further added that on November 30, 2017, the Lesotho government announced its commitment to support the country’s re-election process in a document entitled ‘The Lesotho we want; Dialogue and Reforms for National Transformation ’.
Leina said that with the announcement of 2017, the government’s commitment to the Basotho people, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Lesotho’s development agencies was the first twelve months to address these issues.
affecting political stability including the functioning of parliament and even the improvement of parliament. He also pointed out that in twelve to twenty-four months, the issue of the independence of the judiciary, the development of public institutions and the development of plans or procedures for law enforcement, will be considered.
-the institution of Lesotho.
He said the re-election was based on the parties or political parties that had registered with the Independent Electoral Commission in 2019, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Attorney General and non-political institutions.
nor are they accountable to the government. Leina said they had heard when the Chairman of Economic Affairs within the re-election council reported that the re-election committee had been diverted from its work to amend the constitutional amendments.
He further added that they saw members of the Electoral Commission and the Legislature debating the issue of re-election regardless of the National Leaders Forum or the two houses of parliament and the electoral authorities. NRA Act 2019. “We are concerned that the government wants to win the re-election without consulting the bride and groom in these matters.
We are also concerned that the country is going to the polls and the photographs of the laws in the hands of the government from the re-election council have not been presented in front of the two houses of parliament, ”he said.
He said they were also concerned that the government was ignoring the fact that the High Level Forum had indicated that leaving re-election matters in the hands of the government was a reversal of re-election issues.
Leina affirmed that the government was ignoring the re-election as the Basotho hope of solving the country’s problems, it was also the hope of Lesotho that they wanted as a nation, especially the youth. Therefore, Leina says that for these reasons, the young people are claiming that the government is wrong.
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