The vote on December 24 had to mark the culmination of a political process sponsored by the United Nations to close a decade of chaos.
Le Monde with AFP
A Libyan Parliament Commission responsible for the follow-up of the presidential election of Friday, December 24 concluded, Wednesday, to “the impossibility” to hold on the scheduled date this election, considered as a key step in the transition.
“After consulting the technical, judicial and safe reports, we inform you of the impossibility of keeping the election on December 24, 2021, provided for by the electoral law,” wrote the President of the Commission, AL -Hadi al-Sghayer, in a report addressed to the Chief of Parliament, without moving a new date. The text calls on the head of Parliament, Aguila Saleh, to resume his duties, of which he had been on leave to appear in the presidential election, in order to “revive the political process and rephrafs the roadmap” so as to lead the country to democracy.
Since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, in 2011, Libya fails to get out of a decade of chaos, marked in recent years by the existence of rival powers in the east and west of the country . The election of December 24 had to mark the culmination of a UN-sponsored political process to close this chapter of divisions and instability. After the ceasefire signed in October 2020 between the east and west camps, a new unified government had been set up at the beginning of the year, after a laborious process. UN, to manage the transition from here to the election of December 24th.
Milicians deployed in Tripoli
If the postponement of the vote for several days, on the back of persistent disagreements between rival camps and chronic insecurity, no official announcement had yet been made. No institution did not seem to take responsibility for formalizing such a postponement, the High Electoral Commission and the Parliament based in Tobrouk (East), in conflict, considering everyone that it was getting back to the other. To do so. Tuesday, armed militia deployed in Tripoli, having feared a resumption of the violence while a postponement of the election.
The main figures that have come to the presidentiality are Kadhafi’s cadet son, Seif al-Islam, Marshal Khalifa Hatar, a strong man of the East, and the current prime minister, the businessman abdelhamid Dbeibah. Augurusing a possible recomposition of the political landscape, two foreground candidates from Western Libya have made on Tuesday an unprecedented visit to Benghazi, where they met Marshal Haftar.