The vote, culmination of a laborious political process, is scheduled for December 24th. It should be followed by parliamentary elections a month later.
Le Monde with AFP
Saïf al-Islam, son of the leader Libyen Mouammar Gaddafi, presented, on Sunday, November 14, his official candidacy at the presidential election scheduled in December, according to the organizing electoral commission of a double crucial ballot to release the Libya from the Chaos.
“The Saïf Al-Islam Muammar Gaddafi candidate filed his candidacy for the Presidency of the Libyan State,” the High National Electoral Commission (HCEN) announced, which organizes the presidential election on 24 December and the legislative elections a month later.
“He submitted the documents of his candidacy to the HCEN office in Sebha [County town of the Fezzan, South Libya Region], thus supplementing all the legal conditions required by Law No. 1 relating to the Election of the Head of State, adopted by Parliament, “she added to a statement published on facebook.
Saïf al-Islam, aged 49, has also issued his voter card in the city of Sebha, according to the Electoral Commission. The HCEN announced the opening on Monday of the submission of the presidential candidatures.
First ballot since the fall of the regime of his father
Combining a laborious political process sponsored by the United Nations, the presidential and legislative elections are supposed to turn the page of a decade of chaos since the fall of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, killed in 2011 at A popular revolt, and put an end to the fratricidal struggles between the two rival camps, one in the west of the country and the other in the East.
At the end of July, Saïf al-Islam, son cadet of the dictator, had mentioned at a Maintenance granted to the New York Times Its intention to report to the presidential election. Captured in November 2011 by an armed group in Zentan, in northwestern Libya, he had been sentenced to death in 2015 after an expeditious process.
The group The holder had nevertheless refused to deliver it to the authorities or the International Criminal Court, who has been looking for since 2011 for charges of “crimes against humanity”. The Group released it in 2017 and its trace had been lost.