{"id":3239,"date":"2021-09-13T10:35:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/theres-only-abc-and-dc-in-lesotho"},"modified":"2021-09-13T10:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:35:29","slug":"theres-only-abc-and-dc-in-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/theres-only-abc-and-dc-in-lesotho","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s only ABC and DC in Lesotho\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Lesotho<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Main opposition Democratic Congress (DC) leader Mathibeli Mokhothu, says only his party and the ABC are big enough to run for government, as the rest \u201cjust accompany us so that going to elections isn\u2019t boring\u201d.<\/p>\n

Addressing his party\u2019s faithful in Maliepetsane constituency at Mafeteng recently, Mokhothu said he could not be bothered to talk about smaller political parties which he labelled as \u201celection nieces and nephews\u201d and that \u201cas such I will not be bothered to talk about them\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to Mokhothu, there were only five visible political parties on the ground, although in actual fact only the ABC and DC ruled the roost. \u201cI will not talk about other political parties, especially those that never make an impact.<\/p>\n

I will not focus much on such. I will only pretend to be looking at five political parties that are visible on the ground although in actual fact my focus is only on just two because there are only two political parties in Lesotho,\u201d Mokhothu said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rest just accompany us to the polls because without them the election process wouldn\u2019t be exciting.<\/p>\n

Mokhothu said this while energising his party\u2019s base to \u201cshake off the fatigue and dust\u201d of the 2017 elections while preparing for elections that he said were on the horizon adding \u201cyou need to be strong and refreshed for the task\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mokhothu\u2019s DC is in an alliance with small parties in parliament, including the Popular Front for Democracy (PDF) which has three seats, the National Independent Party (NIP) with one seat, and the Democratic Party of Lesotho (DPL) with one seat.<\/p>\n

The three parties whose visibility Mokhothu referred to besides the ABC and DC, are probably the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) which has 14 seats in parliament, followed by the Alliance of Democrats (AD) with 11 and the Movement for Economic Change (MEC) which has six seats.<\/p>\n

The DC won 30 seats at the 2017 polls, only to lose its Semena constituency MP Tlohelang Aumane and Tele constituency MP Mothepu Mahapa to the AD, while the party\u2019s MPs for the Lebakeng and Qacha\u2019s Nek constituencies Semano Sekatle and his wife Dr Ponts\u2019o Sekatle recently crossed to the ABC, which now has a total of fifty-three (53) MPs in the national assembly.<\/p>\n

Mokhothu said his DC garnered 2993 in the Maliepetsane constituency at the 2017 polls, compared to ABC\u2019s 3033, which is a difference of 40 votes, adding that \u201cto this day I have not gotten over that loss\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBNP, on the other hand, got a mere 140 votes while MEC attained 368 votes and a meagre 82 votes. That\u2019s why I said we shouldn\u2019t focus much on such parties. My focus is on the difference between ABC and DC, which is a mere forty votes.<\/p>\n

Eighty-year-old Thomas Thabane\u2019s party won by only 40 votes and I am still aggrieved to this day\u201d. PFD leader Adv. Lekhetho Rakuoane yesterday brushed off Mokhothu\u2019s utterances as mere election political rhetoric, adding that because he was a politician himself, he could always return the favour when addressing his own base.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not offended in the least. It\u2019s normal political rhetoric. You are not the first journalist to ask me this. I can always return the favour when I address my own political party\u2019s rally.<\/p>\n

I also do say things about others when I play my politics, therefore I am not going to attack him for saying that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s his political strategy of increasing his party\u2019s votes. He\u2019s fighting for his party\u2019s survival. Like I said, I don\u2019t see anything wrong there, hence I don\u2019t take any offence.<\/p>\n

NIP leader Kimetso Mathaba, on the other hand, said he would only worry about such utterances from Mokhothu \u201cif it wasn\u2019t the election\u201d and \u201cif there were squabbles within the opposition coalition\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we are at rallies, we say things that with hindsight we wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It is true that when we are addressing political rallies, we sing all sorts of praises for our racehorses (political parties). It is to be expected,\u201d Mathaba said.<\/p>\n

However, I\u2019d worry if there were problems within the opposition coalition. But so far things are just going smoothly. We all get along very well, so his statements should not in any way affect our alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. Main opposition Democratic Congress (DC) leader Mathibeli Mokhothu, says only his party and the ABC are big enough to run for government, as the rest \u201cjust accompany us so that going to elections isn\u2019t boring\u201d. Addressing his party\u2019s faithful in Maliepetsane constituency at Mafeteng recently, Mokhothu said he could not be bothered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,10,16],"tags":[233,246,245,316],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lesotho","tag-mokhothu"],"yoast_head":"\n\u2018There\u2019s only ABC and DC in Lesotho\u2019 - Lesotho<\/title>\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\/theres-only-abc-and-dc-in-lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018There\u2019s only ABC and DC in Lesotho\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press – Lesotho. 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