Kelebone Albert Maope

Kelebone Albert Maope (born September 15, 1945 in Ha Maope , Lekokoaneng , Berea District , Basutoland ) is a politician from Lesotho .

Life

Maope was in November 1986 Attorney General ( Attorney General ) during the military government of General Justin Lekhanya and retained this position even after he became minister in February 1990th

He was appointed a member of the Senate in May 1993 and then appointed Minister for Justice, Human Rights, Law and Constitutional Affairs to Prime Minister Ntsu Mokhehle's cabinet in June 1993 . As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he took over the post of Foreign Minister in Mokhehle's second cabinet in July 1995 .

At the annual party conference of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), which had an absolute majority in the National Assembly for almost fifteen years , Maope was elected vice chairman in February 1998 and thus deputy to the new party chairman Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili .

In the parliamentary elections in 1998 he was elected as a candidate for the LCD for a member of the National Assembly and represented the constituency of Seqonoka .

After Mosisili also became Prime Minister on May 29, 1998 as successor to Mokhehle, Maope became Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, Cooperatives and Land Reclamation in his cabinet. As part of a cabinet reshuffle in July 1999, he retained the post of Vice Prime Minister, but instead took over the post of Minister of Finance and Development Planning.

In another government reshuffle in July 2001, he retained the post of Deputy Prime Minister, but has now been appointed Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs in his cabinet by Prime Minister Mosisili.

However, he resigned in September 2001 after an exchange of insults between himself and Foreign Secretary Tom Thabane . In October 2001, he founded the Lesotho People's Congress (LPC), a new opposition party , which he was elected to in the parliamentary elections in 2002 and 2007 as a member of the National Assembly, in which he continued to represent the constituency of Seqonoka . In 2002 he was the only opposition politician to win a constituency.

In the parliamentary elections in Lesotho in 2012 , the LPC only received one seat via proportional representation .

Web links

• Entry at rulers.org (English)
• Entry at afdevinfo.com ( Memento from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)