Lesotho: Evaluating the prospects for multiparty democracy

A new 71 page research report from the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA) seeks to evaluate the prospects for the endurance of multiparty democracy in Lesotho. The data used is based primarily on information gathered during interviews with key stakeholders - i.e. political parties, electoral commissioners, civil society and the donor community - in the political processes in Lesotho. The text is descriptive and analytical. It is mainly concerned with current events and the recent past in Lesotho, but also places events in context by bringing out distinguishing characteristics of the country's politics, its problems and prospects, and the principal elements of its democratization process.