A committee of the Libyan Parliament responsible for monitoring the presidential election of December 24 concluded on Wednesday that it was “impossible” to hold the election on the scheduled date.
“After consulting the technical, judicial, and security reports, we inform you of the impossibility of holding the election on the date of December 24, 2021, provided for by the electoral law”, wrote the chairman of the Al-Hadi al- commission. Sghayer in a report to the head of Parliament, Aguila Salah, without advancing a new date.
The text asks the head of parliament to resume his duties, from which he had taken leave to run for president, in order to “relaunch the political process and reformulate the roadmap in a manner” supposed to lead the country towards democracy.
The December 24 election was to mark the culmination of an UN-sponsored political process to close the chapter of divisions and instability.
After the ceasefire signed in October 2020 between the rival authorities, a new unified government was set up at the beginning of the year, at the end of a laborious process led by the UN, to manage the transition by the presidential election.
