{"id":15883,"date":"2022-06-12T07:47:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T07:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill"},"modified":"2022-06-12T08:20:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T08:20:06","slug":"rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill","title":{"rendered":"Rakuaone tables National Assembly Electoral Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of Justice and Law Advocate Lekhetho Rakuoane has on Friday tabled the National Assembly Electoral (Amendment) Bill, 2022 following resistance from the Members<\/p>\n<p>of Parliament (MPs). The Minister wanted the Bill to be waived off from undergoing the relevant Portfolio Committee review, saying the committee has \u201cproblems\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the Standing Order makes provision for the suspension of stipulated regulations and this could be granted if the Speaker of the House accedes.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Rakuoane also said the Bill should be processed speedily citing exigency of time. The Minister\u2019s submissions were however met with resistance from MPs who booed him, saying he<\/p>\n<p>is not following the laid down procedural processes. Alliance of Democrats (AD) proportional representative (PR) Kose Makoa objected to the application<\/p>\n<p>for suspension of standing order, saying it ought to have been reflected in the order paper. He bowed down from the pressure and withdrew the application to suspend the requirement of going to<\/p>\n<p>the Law portfolio committee. Making a ruling, the Speaker of the National Assembly Sephiri Motanyane said the house has the power to suspend the standing order in question.<\/p>\n<p>He also said it ought to have passed through the Business Committee, a committee that allocates the business of the house. The Speaker also warned that it might be \u201cdifficult\u201d in<\/p>\n<p>future to bring this bill into the House. If it passes, the Bill will see deregistration of political party that fail to meet threshold of 500 votes in the previous general elections. The Bill now stands referred to the Legislation Committee for scrutiny and engagement from relevant stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Minister of Justice and Law Advocate Lekhetho Rakuoane has on Friday tabled the National Assembly Electoral (Amendment) Bill, 2022 following resistance from the Members of Parliament (MPs). The Minister wanted the Bill to be waived off from undergoing the relevant Portfolio Committee review, saying the committee has \u201cproblems\u201d. He argued that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[233,246,1282,245,503],"class_list":["post-15883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-electoral","tag-lesotho","tag-political"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rakuaone tables National Assembly Electoral Bill - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister of Justice and Law Advocate Lekhetho Rakuoane has on Friday tabled the National Assembly Electoral (Amendment) ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rakuaone tables National Assembly Electoral Bill\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister of Justice and Law Advocate Lekhetho Rakuoane has on Friday tabled the National Assembly Electoral (Amendment) ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-12T07:47:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-12T08:20:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_24-62a5a1a1af851.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rakuaone tables National Assembly Electoral Bill\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-12T07:47:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-12T08:20:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill\"},\"wordCount\":281,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_24-62a5a1a1af851.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"Electoral\",\"Lesotho\",\"political\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/rakuaone-tables-national-assembly-electoral-bill\",\"name\":\"Rakuaone tables National Assembly Electoral Bill - 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