Party agents who represented the Hamore Democratic Party are breathing fire as they complain of not having been paid for six years after working for the party during the 2017 general elections.
As fate would have it, Hamore is one of the seven political parties that were deregistered by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) because they were deemed to minuscule to make an impact during elections.
By the time it was blown to smithereens by the IEC, the party had already dissolved itself and was lying obliviously in a rubbish dump somewhere at Ha Tṧosane.
Now the question is, why do you form a political party when even your own wife and children do not vote for you? What exactly is it that motivates people to make a nuisance of themselves in the political arena? How do you feel when you only manage 130 votes in the entire country?
We have seen – in the past – the formation of a coalition by small parties and how difficult it was to run a government comprising seven different parties. It was difficult for the big parties in the coalition to demand service delivery from their small parties.
Some of the small parties have by their own admission, resigned themselves to the fact that they are a waste of space.
However, they still fail to divulge what motivates them to contest elections despite admitting to not having a realistic chance of making any significant impact numerically.
In the run up to last year’s general election, some voters said parties ‘are just there to gobble public funds, fade into near-oblivion after elections, only to resurface when it’s election time again’.
Others added: ‘’Lesotho’s political landscape has been corroded by the formation of many parties. Maybe it is high time Lesotho adopts the American style where there are only two political parties’’.
Party agents who represented the Hamore Democratic Party are breathing fire as they complain of not having been paid for six years after working for the party during the 2017 general elections.
As fate would have it, Hamore is one of the seven political parties that were deregistered by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) because they were deemed to minuscule to make an impact during elections.
By the time it was blown to smithereens by the IEC, the party had already dissolved itself and was lying obliviously in a rubbish dump somewhere at Ha Tṧosane.
Now the question is, why do you form a political party when even your own wife and children do not vote for you? What exactly is it that motivates people to make a nuisance of themselves in the political arena? How do you feel when you only manage 130 votes in the entire country?
We have seen – in the past – the formation of a coalition by small parties and how difficult it was to run a government comprising seven different parties. It was difficult for the big parties in the coalition to demand service delivery from their small parties.
Some of the small parties have by their own admission, resigned themselves to the fact that they are a waste of space.
However, they still fail to divulge what motivates them to contest elections despite admitting to not having a realistic chance of making any significant impact numerically.
In the run up to last year’s general election, some voters said parties ‘are just there to gobble public funds, fade into near-oblivion after elections, only to resurface when it’s election time again’.
Others added: ‘’Lesotho’s political landscape has been corroded by the formation of many parties. Maybe it is high time Lesotho adopts the American style where there are only two political parties’’.
Harsh words, but these voters might be on to something.
