Kelebone Maope

Kelebone Maope Albert ( born September 15, 1945 in Ha Maope Lekokoaneng, district, Berea, Basutoland ) is a politician from Lesotho.

Life

Maope was in November 1986 Attorney General ( Attorney General ) during the military government of General Justin Metsing Lekhanya and held that office even after he became Prime Minister in February 1990.

In May 1993 he was appointed a member of the Senate and then appointed in June 1993 to the Minister for Justice, Human Rights, Law and Constitutional Affairs in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Ntsu Mokhehle. In a cabinet reshuffle, he took over in July 1995, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the second cabinet Mokheles.

At the annual party conference of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD ), which had an absolute majority in the National Assembly nearly fifteen years, Maope was elected in February 1998 as Vice President and Deputy to the so new party chairman Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili.

In the 1998 parliamentary elections, he was elected as a candidate of the LCD as a member of the National Assembly and represented the constituency there Seqonoka.

After Mosisili also became prime minister as successor Mokheles on 29 May 1998, Maope was in the Cabinet Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture, Cooperatives and Land Reclamation. In a cabinet reshuffle in July 1999, he retained the office of the Vice - Prime Minister, but instead took over the office of the Minister of Finance and Development Planning.

In another reshuffle in July 2001, he kept still, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, but was now appointed by Prime Minister Mosisili Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs in the Cabinet.

However, in September 2001, he resigned after it had previously come to an exchange of insults between him and Foreign Minister Tom Thabane. In October 2001 he founded the Lesotho People's Congress ( LPC), a new opposition party, and was again chosen for this in the parliamentary elections of 2002 and 2006 as a member of the National Assembly, in which he continued to represent the constituency Seqonoka.