Formation of a government in Lesotho in the case of a hung parliament

Abstract

Although the question of the formation of a government has generated a lot of interest amongst constitutional and political scholars elsewhere, in Lesotho it has never really been much of a constitutional controversy, at least practically, since independence. The main reason has been that due to the constituency based electoral system which the country has been using since independence, only one political party has always been able to garner a sufficient majority to form the government, and the leader thereof would easily be invited to form government without any controversy.