Lesotho Workers' Party

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The Lesotho Workers 'Party (LWP; German for example: " Lesotho Workers' Party ") is a party in Lesotho . It became the fourth largest party in the 2007 parliamentary elections , but has not been represented in parliament since 2015.

history

The LWP was founded in 2001 by Macaefa Billy, the then general secretary of the Lesotho Clothing and Allied Workers Union (LECAWU), in German: "Lesothic union for textile workers and allied workers".

A modified proportional representation was introduced after the 1998 elections, so that the LWP received one of the 120 seats in the 2002 elections , thanks to 7,788 votes, which corresponded to 1.4 percent of all votes.

In the 2007 elections, the LWP received 107,463 second votes, mainly from supporters of the allied All Basotho Convention (ABC), which earned it 10 of the 40 seats to be awarded under proportional representation, while ABC members only ran as direct candidates. The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), which won 62 of the 80 constituencies , was able to continue to govern alone.

In the 2012 elections , voters only had one vote. The LWP only received 2,408 votes, or 0.4 percent. She won a seat on proportional representation and henceforth supported the coalition government led by the ABC. In the 2015 elections , the LWP lost its mandate. She was also unsuccessful in the 2017 elections .

Structure and politics

Chairman and MP is Macaefa Billy (as of 2013).

Since its establishment, the LWP has primarily represented the concerns of workers in the textile industry.

literature

  • Scott Rosenberg, Richard W. Weisfelder, Michelle Frisbie-Fulton: Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Oxford 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-4871-9 , p. 330.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lesotho election results (English), accessed on October 9, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Scott Rosenberg, Richard W. Weis fields Michelle Frisbie-Fulton: Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Oxford 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-4871-9 , p. 330.
  3. ↑ Khabele Matlosa, Caleb Sello: Political Parties and Democratisation in Lesotho. EISA Research Report No. 23, EISA, Johannesburg 2005 online (PDF file, English; 997 kB), accessed on February 11, 2016
  4. ↑ Democratic Congress cornered sundayexpress.co.ls of 2 May 2012 (English), accessed on October 9, 2013
  5. ↑ Results at iec.org.ls ( Memento from March 4, 2015 on WebCite ) (English, PDF)
  6. ^ Final elections tally announced. ( Memento of June 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Lesotho Times of June 6, 2017 (English)