Lesotho Prime Minister Offers to Quit After Party Loses

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Lesotho’s Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili offered to resign yesterday after his party failed to secure a majority in a parliamentary election.

King Letsi III declined to accept Mosisili’s resignation, ordering him to remain in his position until a new prime minister is sworn in, Monyane Moleleki, deputy leader of Mosisili’s Democratic Congress, told reporters in Maseru, the capital.