Lesotho Election coverage coverage of the elections by the media. Fair elections involve the necessity to provide citizens with fair, balanced, and objective information to enable them to come to an informed and rational decision about which leader or party to vote for. Media, therefore, play an indispensable role in the proper functioning of democracy. Media in Lesotho operate under strenuous conditions and the continual threat to free press poses serious challenges in covering crucial events like elections, particularly in ensuring that media carry the citizens agenda and ask the rights questions so that citizens become informed voters. While the Lesotho Constitution does not directly mention press freedom, it guarantees freedom of expression and information exchange. The Coordinated Civil Society Regional Observer Mission which included the SADC Council of NGOs and the SADC Lawyers Association (SADC-LA) saluted the efforts of MISA-Lesotho for the Broadcasters Capacity Building in Peace Building and Conflict Reporting project prior to the 2015 elections. MISA Lesotho was lauded for this pioneering project which contributed to fair and professional coverage of candidates, parties and electoral processes. During this training workshop, a new approach was introduced and the 29 journalists from 10 districts around the country agreed to engage an innovative approach which saw live simultaneous radio reporting of the elections involving 9 radio stations. This reporting strategy was essential in ensuring the minimization of incorrect information by individual radio presenters when reporting elections in Lesotho. It was interesting to note that the Lesotho media reported the elections differently from other countries such as Zambia and South Africa in that the political party that received the most votes in the previous election did not receive the most coverage during the 2015 elections. This was an observation made by the South African-based Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) in conjunction with MISA Lesotho during their monitoring of the However, multiple laws, including the Sedition Proclamation No. 44 of 1938 and the Internal Security (General) Act of 1984 prohibit criticism of the government, provide penalties for seditious libel, and endanger reporters’ ability to protect the confidentiality of their sources. These laws and incidents where journalists and their media houses have been attacked and threatened, pose a major restriction to the ability of media in Lesotho to report elections to their optimum ability. The stories are fair and not biased but to whose favour? By looking at the results in their entirety, an argument can be made that the media avoided controversy and reported in fair manner and ignored critical issues that are important to the nation of the Basotho people.1 The absence of a dominating party resulted in the state media provided fairly equitable access to parties and candidates. On the other hand some of the private media (especially radio) aligned themselves with various political parties. Election debates were aired on eleven private and public radio stations which comprised: Harvest FM, KEL FM, Mo-Af1 Media Monitoring Interim Results. Lesotho Election 2015 So This is Democracy? 2015 31