National Independent Party
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The National Independent Party is a political party in Lesotho. At the last elections for the National Assembly, 25 May 2002, the party won 5.5% of popular votes and 5 out of 120 seats. In the 17 February 2007 parliamentary election, the party won 21 seats through proportional representation. It is allied with the Lesotho Congress for Democracy.[1] The party's leader, Anthony Manyeli, contested this alliance and won a court ruling against the alliance, but it was then overturned on appeal. He was excluded from the party's list of candidates and therefore did not get a seat in parliament.[2] Opposition parties trying to have the alliance ruled invalid have said that the appeal ruling was in violation of the constitution; they want the NIP members of parliament to be replaced by Manyeli and his supporters.[3]
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- ^ "Win was not fair - opposition", AFP (IOL), February 21, 2007.
- ^ Cletus Morafo, "Lesotho paralysed by opposition work boycott", Reuters (IOL), March 20, 2007.
- ^ "Opposition ploy will not work - Lesotho PM", Reuters (IOL), April 3, 2007.
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