A committee of the Libyan Parliament refused Monday, December 27 to set a new date for the presidential election initially scheduled for December 24 before being postponed, leaving the fate of this crucial election unclear.
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During a long-awaited session of Parliament, meeting Monday in Tobruk (east), this commission responsible for monitoring the elections presented a report concluding that it would be risky to set a new date for this state, thus opposing an end of inadmissible on January 24 proposed by the Libyan High Electoral Commission (HNEC). The committee, on the other hand, recommended the establishment of a "
new realistic and applicable roadmap, by defining its stages, instead of setting new dates and making the same mistakes
".
In its report read to the deputies by its president Al-Hadi al-Sghayer, the commission also proposed the establishment of a commission in charge of the development of a Constitution, abolished by the former Muammar Gadhafi regime in 1969. , and called to "
reshuffle the executive
".
The parliamentary session, which continues on Monday, has yet to discuss the committee's proposals.
Multiple remedies
Less than 48 hours before D-Day, the presidential election was postponed for differences on the legal basis of the ballot. The same parliamentary committee had concluded that
an election was
"
impossible
" on the scheduled date, while a postponement had been expected for several days, against the backdrop of insurmountable disagreements between rival camps about an election that several had to contend with. divisive candidates.
The HNEC had, in the process, proposed to postpone the presidential election for one month, to January 24, 2022. In its report presented on Monday, the parliamentary committee did not endorse this date, chosen according to it on the basis of "
political
" considerations.
", And considering that an"
election on January 24 would meet the same fate as that of December 24
". The HNEC never managed to publish the final list of candidates, its work having been disrupted by the multiple appeals to cancel contested candidacies, foremost among which that of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late dictator.
Shortly before the start of Sunday's meeting, the UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, called on MPs to "
fulfill their national responsibility by responding urgently to the demands of the High National Electoral Commission concerning electoral legislation and legal remedies to advance the electoral process
”.
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In a joint statement released on Friday, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy called for a rapid decision on a new electoral calendar after the postponement of the presidential election in Libya. Seeming to anticipate a resurgence of power struggles, the five signatory countries of the communiqué also provided support for the continuation of the current executive's mandate in Tripoli until the actual elections are held.
Besides Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, the strong man of the East Khalifa Haftar who set the country on fire and blood by sending his troops to conquer the capital, in vain, where again the current interim Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah who had pledged not to compete, was among the most prominent candidates, and the most divisive, in an election yet supposed to reunify the country and inaugurate a new Libya.
