The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (Manul) urged the Libyan Parliament to respect the initial timetable for the presidential and legislative elections, which had set December 24 for the holding of the double ballot.
Crucial for the future of this country bogged down in a major political crisis for a decade, the two elections were initially to be held on the same day but Parliament decided at the beginning of October to dissociate them: the presidential election is still scheduled for December 24 but the legislative elections will be held. will hold a month later.
La Manul, who “closely follows” the “finalization of the legal framework” of the elections by the Parliament, called for the respect of the principle of simultaneous presidential and legislative elections, in accordance with the political process initiated by the UN in November and the resolutions Council on Libya. It “is necessary to preserve the integrity of the electoral process, to strengthen its credibility and to guarantee the acceptance of the results of the polls”, insisted the UN mission in a press release published overnight from Saturday to Sunday.
The President of the Parliament based in Tobruk (east), Aguila Saleh, had ratified a text supposed to frame the presidential component of the ballot, obviously tailor-made for the strongman of the East, Khalifa Haftar, causing heated protests in Tripoli (Where is).
Libya is trying to extricate itself from a decade of chaos since the fall of the former regime in 2011, led by dictator Muammar Gaddafi. 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 between now and the elections end-of-year general.
For the international community, the priority is to hold these decisive polls, but they remain surrounded by uncertainties, due to strong internal dissensions, in particular between the regions of the East and the West.
