Lesotho votes in election with political crisis still unresolved

Children play on a damaged pedestrian bridge ahead of the general elections after five years of political instability, at a township outside the capital Maseru in Lesotho, October 6, 2022.REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

MASERU (Reuters) - Lesotho citizens were due to vote in an election on Friday, after years of political instability that the southern African mountain kingdom's lawmakers have yet to resolve.

The election will go ahead despite a deadlock in parliament on a whole gamut of major constitutional reforms that were meant to be enacted ahead of the vote so as to bring order to Lesotho's fractious politics.