The UN envoy for Libya, Jan Kubis, urged the Libyan leaders on Monday (August 30th) to "
not waste time
" and to finalize the constitutional framework which will make it possible to organize the elections scheduled for December, while the country remains undermined by divisions.
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“
The (Libyan) government has made arrangements for the elections, but we need a legal framework.
The deputies are currently in the process of finalizing the electoral law and we still have very little time left
”, declared the head of the UN mission at the opening in Algiers of a meeting of the neighboring countries of Libya.
"
I invited them to take their responsibilities and not waste time,
" he added, quoted by the official Algerian agency APS.
Libya is trying to extricate itself from a decade of bloody violence since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's regime in 2011, a chaos marked in recent years by the existence of rival powers in the East and the West against a backdrop of foreign interference.
After the end of the fighting in the summer of 2020 and the signing of a ceasefire in October, a unified and transitional government was installed under the auspices of the UN at the beginning of the year to unify the institutions and lead the country in legislative and presidential elections scheduled for December.
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But after this political upturn hailed everywhere as "
historic
", divisions quickly resurfaced, while the holding of these elections became more and more hypothetical in the absence of a constitutional framework supposed to govern the double ballot.
"
The Government of National Unity has made available the necessary budget for the holding of the elections, but it is important that there is a legal framework as soon as possible
", insisted Jan Kubis, who invited the neighboring countries of Libya. to designate observers to supervise the electoral operation.
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The meeting in Algiers opened in the presence of the foreign ministers of Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Niger, Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
