{"id":6328,"date":"2021-11-27T11:02:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/blow-for-anti-majoro-mps"},"modified":"2021-11-27T11:33:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T11:33:18","slug":"blow-for-anti-majoro-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/blow-for-anti-majoro-mps","title":{"rendered":"Blow for anti-Majoro MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>THE motion to topple Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro suffered a blow this week after the Basotho Action Party (BAP) said they will not support it. Basotho Patriotic Party (BPP) leader, Tefo Mapesela, was banking on the nine BAP MPs to support his motion to oust Majoro next week.<\/p>\n

Mapesela has proposed Alliance of Democrats (AD) leader Moleleki as Majoro\u2019s replacement. But Professor Nqosa Mahao, the BAP leader, says his party will not vote for the motion.<\/p>\n

Prof Mahao said King Letsie III should rather dissolve parliament and call for an election within 90 days instead of MPs voting to replace Moeketsi Majoro with Monyane Moleleki.<\/p>\n

He said while Majoro\u2019s coalition government is inept and corrupt the BAP believes that Moleleki \u201cis worse\u201d. \u201cWe already know those people they are recommending.<\/p>\n

We know their bad deeds while in the government. We have seen how they do things,\u201d Professor Mahao said. \u201cTheir replacement (Moleleki) was part of the past government where some of the bad things happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead, we call for the MPs to make two-thirds and vote for the dissolution of parliament so that Majoro advises the King to dissolve it and call for an election.<\/p>\n

\u201d The BAP has also rejected overtures from the two factions in the ABC. One faction supports Majoro while the other, which is said to be led by the party\u2019s secretary general Lebohang Hlaele, wants him out.<\/p>\n

Both factions have been trying to court the BAP to vote with them when the motion is put to a vote. The BAP national coordinator, Moshoeshoe Fako, told thepost yesterday that \u201cwe rejected their proposals for support\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see a problem of people who want to oust the prime minister when parliament is left with only nine months before being dissolved,\u201d Mahao said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPoliticians have failed therefore the people should be given chance to decide,\u201d he said. He said giving the people the chance to go to election \u201cwill show that we still have conscience and integrity as politicians\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people who want to oust the government do not talk about service delivery to Basotho, they just want to have access to government funds for next year\u2019s election campaigns,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLesotho politics have lost direction.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s spokesman Motlatsi Maqelepo said the BAP doesn\u2019t believe the \u201cmotion will fulfil our policies as the plan should be helping Basotho and Lesotho\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMajoro is a prime minister with no vision, a weak Prime Minister without the capacity to hold anybody accountable.<\/p>\n

But he is better than this (Moleleki) one who wants to replace him. We know how they act when in government,\u201d Maqelepo said. \u201cWe think this issue should be solved by Basotho through elections.<\/p>\n

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\nSo far it is unclear how many ABC MPs will support the motion against Majoro. Both factions however insist that they have the numbers. The Democratic Congress (DC), the ABC\u2019s main governing partner, has said its 27 MPs will vote against the motion.<\/p>\n

The Basotho National Party (BNP) and the Movement for Economic Change (MEC), both junior partners in the government, will not support a motion that will push them out of power.<\/p>\n

The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) has always favoured a government of national unity rather than a coalition led by a few parties. The ABC chairman, Sam Rapapa, who supports Majoro, told his supporters over the weekend that the motion will not succeed because only a few MPs will support it.<\/p>\n

Rapapa said the ABC has 36 loyal MPs, while the Democratic Congress (DC) has 27, the MEC has seven, the Basotho National Party (BNP) has five, while the Popular Front for Democracy (PFD) has three.<\/p>\n

Those numbers, he said, are enough to defeat the motion. \u201cThe AD has 11, LCD (Lesotho Congress for Democracy) has 11, DPL (Democratic Party of Lesotho) has one, BPP has one,\u201d Rapapa said.<\/p>\n

He also said some eight ABC MPs and two from the MEC might vote with the opposition but the number will not be enough to carry the motion. He said the Basotho-Land Congress Party, National Independent Party and the Reformed Congress of Lesotho which have one MP each will not support the motion.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe they will only make about 42 while about 70 members would still be behind the government,\u201d Rapapa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir number is very small,\u201d he said. Chalane Phori, Rapapa\u2019s deputy whose faction is hostile to Majoro, is however confident that they the numbers.<\/p>\n

In a recent video, Phori said his faction was still negotiating with other parties to support the motion. He said so far 16 ABC MPs had pledged to support the motion.<\/p>\n

This, he said, brings to 42 MPs who will vote to remove Majoro. This, he said, is in addition to five ministers and three party leaders in parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still finishing up negotiations with other leaders,\u201d Phori said.<\/p>\n

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