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Basotho National Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Basotho National Party is a conservative political party in Lesotho, founded in the 1959 as the Basutoland National Party by Leabua Jonathan. At the last elections for the National Assembly, 25 May 2002, the party won 22.4% of the vote and 21 out of 120 seats. The leader of the 1986 military coup, Major General Justin Metsing Lekhanya, was subsequently elected leader of the party. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basotho_National_Party   (155 words)

Polity IV Country Report 2003: Lesotho In the 1993 elections the Basotho Congress Party (BCP) won all of the seats in the National Assembly and Dr. Ntsu Mokhele became prime minister. In 1997 Prime Minister Mokhehle broke from the BCP and established a new party, the Lesotho Congress for Democracy Party (LCD). Under increasing pressure by the government of South Africa to limit the activities of the African National Congress within its borders, Chief Jonathan was ousted in a coup led by General Lekhanya in January 1986. www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Les1.htm   (1243 words)

Lesotho:Political Instability/IPS MS Solidarity 2000-News/ The hope that this Basotho nation had in the Authority, and the party political leadership has been tarnished to a point where there is increasing debate on whether the country's constitution shouldn't be amended to allow civil society to participate directly in government. The Basotho have lost faith in conventional politics and a vibrant civil society is rising to take a leading role in pushing for political stability and development in the landlocked kingdom. Party Leader and Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has, since he was elected in 1998, failed to get his own supporters into leadership positions in the party headquarters. www.ips.org /geneva/solidarity/les0906b.html   (867 words)

MSN Encarta - Lesotho When general elections were held in 1965, the Basutoland National Party (BNP, which became the Basotho National Party at independence) won a majority of seats in the legislature; the leader of the BNP, Chief Joseph Leabua Jonathan, became prime minister. The prime minister is the leader of the majority party in the National Assembly and is responsible for appointing a cabinet. Two-thirds of the members are directly elected by universal adult suffrage, and the remainder are elected by proportional representation (in which voters vote for individual parties, and seats are awarded based on the parties’ share of the vote). ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567556_3/Lesotho.html   (895 words)

Lesotho Embassy in Washington - Historical Background Both the Basotho National Party and the Basotholand Congress Party protested the results of the elections. Although the BNP government did achieve some measure of success during its five-year term, the electorate were disillusioned and thought the party had done very little to improve the lot of the people. The emergence of Basotho as a nation occurred around 1818 when King Moshoeshoe (1786-1870) formed alliances with an amalgam of clans and chiefdoms of southern Sotho people who occupied the area which is presently the Northern and Eastern Free State and Western Lesotho from about 1400 AD. www.lesothoemb-usa.gov.ls /profile.htm   (4532 words)

ANC MEETS BASOTHO NATIONAL PARTY The ANC reassured the Basotho National Party of its willingness to re -establish the historical ties cemented during the difficult apartheid days, but also showed a willingness to assist in the preparations for the national elections in May 2002. The ANC met the Basotho National Party(BNP) at Luthuli House today. Issued by the African National Congress and Basotho National Party www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pr/2002/pr0219.html   (324 words)

afrol News: Lesotho's ruling party landslide win concerns The main opposition party, the Basotho National Party (BNP), however has protested the preliminary results and is threatening to boycott parliament. This will be giving the ruling party a majority in the 120-member National Assembly. The BNP opposition is however at unease with the situation, fearing the re-establishment of one-party rule in Parliament. www.afrol.com /News2002/les006_lcd_wins.htm   (634 words)

Webshots AP News Headlines The opposition Basotho National Party won a seat in parliament in 1998, marking the first time an opposition party had a seat since independence. The ruling party swept the last election in 1998, sparking riots and violence led by the opposition. The inclusion of the new seats in parliament is part of an overhauled electoral system intended to move the southern African kingdom beyond its legacy of political unrest and one-party rule. daily.webshots.com /content/ap/current/h30154093.html   (322 words)

MSN Encarta - Lesotho The government is formed by the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), with the Basotho National Party (BNP) as the second major party. Other important parties are the Lesotho People’s Congress (LPC) and the Basotho Congress Party (BCP). Legislative power is exercised by a National Assembly, which was increased from 65 to 80 members in the 1998 elections, and a Senate, with 33 members. uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567556_4/Lesotho.html   (329 words)

CNN.com - World - Election Watch Lesotho's bicameral parliament consists of the National Assembly and the Senate. Members of the Senate are indirectly elected; 22 are principal chiefs and 11 are appointed by the ruling party. Prime Minster MOKHEHLE was elected in May 1993 as the leader of the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP). www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/africa/lesotho.html   (212 words)

Background Notes: Lesotho Development of a new national constitution acceptable to the majority of the Basotho people is the major task of the assembly, but it was also charged with reviewing the position and powers of the king, the status of the traditional chieftainships, and the role of the army and political parties under a new constitution. In addition to the Jonathan regime's alienation of Basotho power brokers and the population, South Africa had virtually closed the land borders because of concerns over African National Congress (ANC) cross-border operations and was publicly threatening more direct action if the Jonathan government did not root out ANC presence in Lesotho. The Basutoland National Party (BNP) won 31 of 60 seats in the legislature; the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP), 25 seats; and the Maramatlou Freedom Party (MFP), 4 seats. dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/lesotho9011.html   (2943 words)

Lesotho News Online (6) - 6/2/98 Some party followers complained that Qhobela was being sidelined by not being made the deputy prime minister as a deputy leader in the party - and the power struggle erupted until Mokhehle bowed out in 1997 to form LCD. They went to the offices of BNP where they were addressed by the leader of BCP, Molapo Qhobela who asked them to keep order and to disperse in peace to their homes as their leadership was working out some legal plans to challenge the results. The parties also complain that the local firm which was compiling the voters lists in the computers was operating from the Prime Minister's office where all the computers were connected to one another. www.africa.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Newsletters/lsno6.html   (2645 words)

Elections in Lesotho The ruling Basotho National Party (BNP) won all 60 parliamentary seats by default Prime Minister: Pakalitha Mosisili (LCD) [since 29 May 1998] Following elections, the leader of the majority party in the National Assembly automatically becomes Prime Minister. *The Other Parties were the Marema Tlou Party (MTP) and Basutoland National Party (BNP). africanelections.tripod.com /ls.html   (181 words)

Maseru Political Leaders Commit to Peaceful Dialogue in Run-Up to National Elections Participants included representatives of the 16 parties contesting the elections, including incumbent Prime Minister and leader of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy, Pakalitha Mosisili, and the former head of Lesotho's Military Council, Justin Lekhanya, who leads the Basotho National Party. The party leaders also discussed the possibility of appointing a facilitator to lead the post-election negotiations, how to allocate cabinet posts and align party priorities in a potential coalition government, and the important role to be played by the opposition in the new National Assembly. A key outcome of the conference on Monday was agreement by all parties to convene immediately after election results are announced and to form a new government through inter-party dialogue and political negotiations. www.aegis.com /news/UNAIDS/2002/UN020502.html   (838 words)

NDI - National Democratic Institute for International Affairs In the first elections taking place in 1970, the ruling party, the Basotho National Party (BNP), appeared to be behind its rival the Basotholand Congress Party (BCP) in early election results. In 1973, a rubber-stamp Interim National Assembly was established by the ruling BNP to serve as a political instrument. The Kingdom of Lesotho was established as a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliament consisting of a Senate and an elected National Assembly. www.ndi.org /globalp/civmil/programscm/lesotho/lesothocm_1999_pf.asp   (1440 words)

Lesotho Following a military coup which deposed the ruling Basotho National Party (BNP) government which had led the country since independence, a new flag was adopted on 17 January 1987. Lesotho's current flag was adopted on January 20, 1987 after a military coup in which the military replaced the governing Basuto National Party. It is believed that the old flag was scrapped because it was identified too closely with the BNP and incorporated its colours of red, white, blue and green. www.1uptravel.com /flag/flags/ls.html   (1203 words)

Global Road Warrior Elections for a new National Assembly were held in March 1993 with the Basotho Congress Party (BCP) claiming victory under their leader Ntsu Mokhehle, now the new Prime Minister. From independence to the late 1980s, Lesotho's politics were dominated by the Basutoland National Party (BNP), a conservatively inclined party led by Chief Leabua Jonathan promoting a policy of accommodation with South Africa. Although Basotho culture is strongly paternalistic, women make up nearly half of the country's workforce and are a growing presence among midlevel managers and executives. www.worldtradepress.com /grwUnigroup/country/lesotho/13grw.html   (1203 words)

Lesotha Human Rights A majority of Basotho mine workers were members of the South African National Union of Mineworkers (NUM); however, as a foreign organization, the NUM was not allowed to engage in union activities in the country. In traditional rural Basotho society, livestock herding by young boys was a prerequisite to manhood in the community, and this frequently interfered with their school enrollment. A 1998 national conference on the empowerment of women noted that of 100 cases of human rights abuses, 90 involved women who were victims of domestic violence, rape, or sexual harassment. www.multied.com /NationbyNation/Lesotha/Human.html   (4888 words)

Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles Major political parties: Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), Lesotho People’s Congress (LPC), Basotho Congress Party (BCP), Basotho National Party (BNP), Basotho African Congress (BAC). The kingdom was founded by an exceptional 19th century leader confronting Boer encroachment onto Basotho grazing lands from one direction, and violent population upheavals precipitated by the military rise of Shaka Zulu in Natal from another. Two Basotho wars with the Boers in 1858 and 1865 resulted in the loss by Moshoeshoe I of most of the western lowlands to the Orange Free State. www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019744962769   (1773 words)

BBC NEWS World Africa Lesotho opposition cries foul Another opposition party, the Lesotho People's Congress has won a seat in the capital, Maseru. BNP protests after the last elections in 1998 culminated in an army mutiny, which was only suppressed by troops from South Africa and Botswana. Before this year's poll all the parties signed an electoral code of conduct committing themselves to respect the results. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2014547.stm   (380 words)

Research & Teaching>>Lesotho>>Democracy BNP (Basotho National Party: 1 Seat (1998), 0 Seats (1993) BCP (Basotho Congress Party): 0 Seats (1998), 65 Seats (1993) National Assembly elections are due to be held in 2002 using the newly adopted Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) system. www.hrdc.unam.na /ls_demo.htm   (401 words)

part The Basotho National Party has called for an independent audit of the election results and a second opposition party, the Sefate Democratic Union, has called for a recount. The Basotholand Congress Party and the Basotholand African Congress each won three seats and the Lesotho Workers' Party, the Maramatlou Freedom Party and the National Progressive Party each won a single seat. MASERU -- Final results yesterday confirmed Lesotho's ruling party's sweep of the general elections, but under a new electoral system opposition parties won multiple seats in Parliament for the first time. www.dispatch.co.za /2002/05/30/foreign/PART.HTM   (362 words)

Lesotho: country profile Ethnically homogeneous, the country is inhabited by the Basotho (Sotho) people (85 per cent) and a Zulu minority (15 per cent). gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_profile.cfm?Id=69   (180 words)

Lesotho News Online (3) - 4/1/98 The royalist MFP and the conservative BNP agreed with the BCP that the Mokhehleís move is tantamount to a coup, but unlike the BCP, the BNP recommended that the king should dissolve the LCD government and form a government of national unity comprising all parties to prepare for the national election. This was meant to put in place a political party which would usher the country into its new political dispensation; the era of self-rule that had begun to sweep through the entire African continent at the time. Secondly, although there is no clause in the national constitution which allows the prime minister to engage in that political fraud, there is no constitutional provision that expressly debars him from doing what he did. www.africa.upenn.edu /Newsletters/lsno3.html   (3882 words)

Search Results for "BCP" ...customary or traditional courtPolitical parties and leaders:Basotho Congress Party or BCP [Tseliso MAKHAKHE]; Basotho National Party or BNP [Maj. Gen. ...parties and leaders:Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA]; Bangladesh Communist Party or BCP [Saifuddin Ahmed MANIK]; Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP [Khaleda ZIA,... ...1970, which the opposition Basutoland Congress party (later the Basotho Congress party; BCP) apparently won, Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan declared a state of emergency... www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=BCP   (158 words)

State Party Report - Lesotho The first independence elections were won by the Basotho National Party (BNP), which took the reigns of government and facilitated the enjoyment of the right of (internal) self-determination from 1966 until 1970, when the second elections were held. The Basotho National Party lost these elections to the Basotho Congress Party (BCP), and subsequently declared a state of emergency (State of Emergency Order No. 1, 1970), suspended the Constitution (Constitution Suspension Order No. 2, 1970), and invalidated the elections (General Election (Invalidation) Order No. 4, 1970). The Kingdom of Lesotho is a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and its Protocol of 1973, to ensure that nuclear weapons, which threaten life, are not produced. www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/documentation/tbodies/ccpr-c-81-add14.htm   (12502 words)

2181.htm Elections were held for all members of the National Assembly for the first time since the disputed poll of 1998 that forced a military intervention by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the establishment of an Interim Political Authority (IPA) with representatives from all 12 parties contesting the election. Nineteen parties contested the elections, that were monitored by international missions from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Japan, the European Union and the United States. The electoral campaign was full of controversy, primarily concerning the question of indemnity from prosecution for those involved in the 1998 violence, among whom were candidates for the 2002 elections. www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2181.htm   (1673 words)

BBC News Africa One seat for opposition in Lesotho election The opposition Basotho National Party has won one seat in Lesotho's general election. Partial results from Saturday's vote give the remaining 70 seats so far declared to the ruling Congress for Democracy party. There are 80 National Assembly seats in all. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/99669.stm   (243 words)

Elections in Lesotho The National Assembly has 120 members, elected for a five year term, 80 in single-seat constituencies and 40 by proportional representation. Political parties (including links) - A short history www.electionworld.org /lesotho.htm   (132 words)

National Party - Art History Online Reference and Guide Bangladesh - Bangladesh Nationalist Party, National Party, National Party (Manju), National Party (Naziur) Pakistan - Awami National Party, Baluch National Party (Mengal), Baluch National Party (Awami), Pakistan National Party Canada - National Party of Canada (defunct) Parti national (Québec; defunct) Parti nationaliste du Québec (defunct) www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/National_Party   (161 words)

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