In Lesotho's national assembly, 80 seats are won through first-past-the-post voting, with the rest allocated using proportional representation, under which parties get seats based on their total national vote. On Saturday, court papers showed the IEC asked the Constitutional Court for an order "reviewing, correcting and setting aside" the allocation of compensatory seats, or those allocated using proportional representation. It said the Democratic Congress party, the main opposition party, had erroneously been awarded 11 compensatory seats instead of eight, while the Alliance of Democrats (AD) was wrongly allocated three compensatory seats instead of two. AD is the only affected party in the RFP-led coalition, holding five of the alliance's 65 seats. Should the court uphold the election authorities' findings, AD would lose one seat.

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