{"id":67821,"date":"2022-10-16T18:10:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/lesotho-prime-minister-moeketsi-majoro-resigns"},"modified":"2022-10-16T20:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T18:43:04","slug":"lesotho-prime-minister-moeketsi-majoro-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/lesotho-prime-minister-moeketsi-majoro-resigns","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Lesotho Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro has resigned after his political party All Basotho Convention (ABC) lost elections held on 07 October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A newly-formed political party Revolution for Prosperity (RFP), launched by Sam Matekane on 22 March 2022, won the heavily contested polls.<\/p>\n<p>Majoro has handed over his resignation letter to King Letsie III. The King has accepted the letter and has requested Majoro to remain in office until the swearing-in of the new Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Matekane\u2019s RFP has formed a coalition government with the Alliance of Democrats and the Movement for Economic Change after it didn\u2019t get an outright majority in the recent polls.<\/p>\n<p>The RFP won 56 out of 120 seats in parliament but needed the support of other parties to reach the 60 plus-one seats required to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>Matekane recently said they will be using personal cars and staying in their homes until things have gone back to normalcy.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if they still insist on not using state cars or government residences, Matekane said:<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, I still maintain I have not flip-flopped. We are aware that government follows protocols.<\/p>\n<p>We will peruse the law, and seek council, but we maintain that things are done right.<\/p>\n<p>We wish to use our family cars, and our own residences up until the matters of economy look stable.<\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly is expected to reconvene for the swearing-in of the new parliamentarians who will appoint the Prime Minister, who will then be inaugurated after being presented to the King.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike eSwatini, Lesotho is a constitutional monarchy and the king has no formal power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Lesotho Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro has resigned after his political party All Basotho Convention (ABC) lost elections held on 07 October 2022. A newly-formed political party Revolution for Prosperity (RFP), launched by Sam Matekane on 22 March 2022, won the heavily contested polls. Majoro has handed over his resignation letter to King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":67820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[12311,1493,2189,5081,12310,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-67821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-2022-lesotho-elections","10":"tag-africa-press","11":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","12":"tag-lesotho","13":"tag-lesotho-elections","14":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lesotho Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro Resigns - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lesotho Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro has resigned after his political party All Basotho Convention (ABC) lost election ...\" \/>\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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/lesotho-prime-minister-moeketsi-majoro-resigns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lesotho Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro Resigns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lesotho Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro has resigned after his political party All Basotho Convention (ABC) lost election ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/lesotho-prime-minister-moeketsi-majoro-resigns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-16T16:10:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-16T18:43:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634c50a295fea.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"770\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"513\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/lesotho-prime-minister-moeketsi-majoro-resigns\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/lesotho-prime-minister-moeketsi-majoro-resigns\",\"name\":\"Lesotho Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro Resigns - 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