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While the presidential election of December 24 in Libya was to mark the culmination of a political process sponsored by the UN, a committee of the Libyan Parliament responsible for monitoring the election concluded on Wednesday that it was “impossible” to convene voters on the scheduled date.
A committee of the Libyan Parliament responsible for monitoring the presidential election of December 24 concluded, Wednesday, December 22, that it was “impossible” to hold this election on the due date, which is a key stage in the transition.
“After consulting the technical, judicial and security reports, we inform you of the impossibility of holding the election on the date of December 24, 2021 provided for by the electoral law”, wrote the chairman of the said commission, Al-Hadi al. -Sghayer in a report to the Head of Parliament, without advancing a new date.
The text asks the head of Parliament, Aguila Saleh, to resume his functions, from which he had taken leave to run for the presidential election, in order to “relaunch the political process and reformulate the roadmap in a” supposed way. lead the country towards democracy.
Since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has failed to extricate itself from a decade of chaos, marked in recent years by the existence of rival powers in the east and west of the country.
The December 24 election was to mark the culmination of a UN-sponsored political process to end this chapter of divisions and instability.
After the ceasefire signed in October 2020 between camps in the East and the West, a new unified government was set up at the beginning of the year, at the end of a laborious process overseen by the UN, to manage the transition between now and the December 24 election.
Persistent disagreements between rival camps
If the postponement of the poll had been no doubt for several days, against a background of persistent disagreements between rival camps and chronic insecurity, no official announcement had yet been made.
No institution seemed willing to take the responsibility of formalizing such a postponement, the High Electoral Commission (HNEC) and the Parliament based in Tobruk (East), in conflict, each considering that it is up to the other to To do.
On Tuesday, armed militiamen were deployed in Tripoli, raising fears of a resumption of violence as a postponement of the election loomed.
The main figures who have run for president are Gaddafi’s youngest son, Seif al-Islam, Marshal Khalifa Haftar, a strong man from the East, and the current Prime Minister, businessman Abdelhamid Dbeibah.
Heralding a possible recomposition of the political landscape, two leading presidential candidates from West Libya made an unprecedented visit to Benghazi on Tuesday, where they met Marshal Haftar.
With AFP