BASOTHO VOTERS QUEUE TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS AS THE LESOTHO GENERAL
ELECTION GETS UNDERWAY.
Blanket clad Basotho voters brave the cold as Lesotho's general
election gets underway, May 25, 2002. The tiny southern African
mountain kingdom is holding it's first election under a new electoral
system with nineteen political parties competing for 80 constituency
and 40 proportional representation seats.REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
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