All Basotho Convention

The All Basotho Convention (ABC; Sesotho: Kobo Tata ea Basotho; German as: " meeting of all Basotho ") is a party in Lesotho. It was founded in 2006 and was in the parliamentary elections in 2012 the second largest party.

History

Since 1998, the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) ruled by absolute majority. 2006 left the LCD politician Tom Thabane with 16 deputies, the party and founded the All Basotho Convention, whose chairman he was in 2007. She pulled on voters, especially from the urban milieu. In the elections in February 2007, she received 17 direct mandates, especially in the area of ​​the capital Maseru. The ABC joined with the Lesotho Workers 's Party ( LWP ) on a common list, which accounted for a total of 27 seats on the. Thus, the ABC / LWP was the second largest party.

In the elections on 26 May 2012, the ABC generated approximately 25 percent of the vote and 26 of 80 direct mandates. Thanks to the partial proportional representation she received another four mandates and so came on 30 of the 120 seats. Their strongholds were the districts of Maseru and Berea. The party of outgoing Prime Minister Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili, the Democratic Congress, missed the absolute majority. Thabane announced a coalition government with the LCD, to found the Popular Front for Democracy and the Basotho National Party, which came to 64 of the 120 seats. Mosisili subsequently went back 30 May 2012 by the Office of the Prime Minister. On June 8, 2012 Thabane was sworn in as Prime Minister of a coalition government of ABC, LCD and BNP with the support of smaller parties.

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The emblem of the party shows a sun that is black on the inside.