Basotho National Party
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The Basotho National Party is a conservative political party in Lesotho, founded in the 1959 as the Basutoland National Party by Leabua Jonathan. He was Prime Minister from 1965 until the coup of 1986.
At the last elections for the National Assembly, 25 May 2002, the party won 22.4% of the vote and 21 out of 120 seats. The leader of the 1986 military coup, Major General Justin Metsing Lekhanya, was subsequently elected leader of the party. Since then, the party has been rocked by internal squabbles which have seen it fail to provide an effective opposition within the Lesotho parliament.
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