Lesotho's high court will decide if Prime Minister Thomas Thabane can claim immunity from a charge that he murdered his wife.
No charges were read out and his lawyer argued the case should be referred to the high court to answer a question of possible immunity, which magistrate Phethise Motanyane granted.
Thabane has said he will resign at the end of July, while several members of his own All Basotho Convention party have been pressuring him to go sooner to avert political chaos.A potential plea of immunity would likely raise doubts over how willing he is to step down, further fanning the political crisis in this mountain territory of 2 million people.
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