Lesotho Opposition Leads as Vote Count Passes Two-Thirds Mark
- All Basotho Convention wins 45 National Assembly seats
- Ruling Democratic Congress wins eight parliamentary seats
A woman casts her ballot during Lesotho general elections at a polling station on June 3, 2017 in the remote village of Nyakosoba.
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Lesotho’s main opposition party took a commanding lead as the constituency vote count from June 3 elections in the tiny southern African mountain kingdom passed the two-thirds mark.
With results tallied from 57 of the 80 constituencies, Thomas Thabane’s All Basotho Convention, or ABC, had won 45 parliamentary seats, the ruling Democratic Congress, or DC, led by Pakalitha Mosisili, had secured eight and four smaller parties one each, the nation’s Independent Electoral Commission announced in the capital, Maseru. Results from the southern part of the country, a ruling-party stronghold, haven’t been announced.