The Libyan High Council of State (HCE), a body acting as a Senate, proposed Wednesday, December 8 to postpone the presidential election scheduled for December 24 until February, due to persistent disagreements between rival camps.
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"
The entire political process risks being undermined
" if the presidential election is held on the scheduled date, because of "
tensions, mistrust between the parties and foreign interference,
" said Omar Boshah, senior vice-president. -President of HCE, during a press conference in Tripoli. If the election is held well on December 24, "
the results would not be accepted
", he insisted.
The upper house of the Parliament, installed in Tripoli, thus proposes to organize the presidential one in February, "
at the same time as the legislative ones
".
According to the HCE initiative, "
the first mission of the new Parliament would be the drafting of a Constitution
", which the North African country no longer has since its abolition by the former leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1969.
Elections "in the form of lists"?
The HCE, which is opposed by an intense rivalry to the House of Representatives based in Tobruk (east), also proposes "
the holding of presidential elections in the form of lists, each list being made up of four names: the president of the presidential council , his two deputies and a prime minister
”.
The mandate of parliament and the presidential council would be "
four years from the date of their election and for a single non-renewable term
," Omar Boshah said.
According to this scenario, the competences of the presidential council and the prime minister would be determined by the parliament and the HCE.
Libya is trying to extricate itself from a major political crisis that has persisted since the fall of the former regime in 2011, in the wake of the Arab Spring.
After years of armed conflict and regional divisions between East and West, a new interim government was appointed earlier this year, under the auspices of the UN, to lead the transition by an election. crucial presidential set for December 24.
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According to the UN roadmap, parliamentary elections were to be held on the same day, but Parliament recently postponed legislative elections for a month, rekindling tensions and running the risk of torpedoing a fragile process.
A little over two weeks before the first deadline, the final list of candidates is still pending while the electoral campaign has not yet started.
Numerous incidents have also marred the electoral process in recent weeks, against the backdrop of exacerbated differences between political figures in the country.