The president of the Libyan Parliament Aguila Saleh ratified the law relating to the next election of the Libyan head of state, an approach contested by other political institutions and several deputies who accuse him of not having submitted the text to the parliamentary vote.
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Abdallah Bliheq, spokesperson for the elected Libyan Parliament, published Thursday on Facebook, without any comment, a text of 75 articles signed by Aguila Saleh the day before, supposed to govern the candidacy and the election of the future president on December 24.
This will be the very first direct ballot.
"A faulty legal text"
But this long-awaited approach has been contested by other institutions such as the High Council of State (HCE) and a group of 22 deputies who accuse Aguila Saleh of not having submitted the text to a parliamentary vote.
Passing the law on to the Election Commission and the UN "
without a vote is a violation of the Interim Constitutional Declaration, the Political Accord and the Rules of Procedure of Parliament,
" the parliamentarians said in a statement released by local media. .
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For its part, the HCE, a body which acts as the Senate and which must be consulted before any ratification, denounced in a press release a “
unilateral
”
decision
by Aguila Saleh, accusing him of trying to “
grab hold of powers that 'he does not have
"in order"
to obstruct the next elections by deliberately enacting flawed legislation
".
The protesters accuse Aguila Saleh of having wanted to favor General Khalifa Haftar, de facto head of an army which controls the eastern province and part of the south, more and more expected as a presidential candidate.