Holding Libya’s presidential elections on December 24 “has become impossible,” said Al-Hadi Al-Saghir, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Elections Monitoring.
Libya’s House of Representatives holds a closed session today in Tobruk to discuss developments in the electoral process, House spokesman Abdullah Blehaq told the press.
The Speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, submitted papers on Saturday to stand in presidential elections, which are scheduled for December 24.
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) urged the Libyan House of Representatives to adopt “the necessary adjustments, including those put forward by the High National Commission for Elections (HNEC), to enable the holding of free, fair, inclusive, and credible parliamentary and presidential elections simultaneously on 24 December”.
Imad al-Sayeh, chairman of the High National Election Commission (HNEC), arrived in Tobruk today, where he is scheduled to meet the House Committee on Legal Affairs to discuss the amendments that the commission requested for the electoral laws.
Issa Al-Araibi, a member of parliament, criticized on Monday the lack of representatives for Cyrenaica in Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh’s cabinet, which he says violates the government’s purpose of unity.
Libya’s High National Elections Commission (HNEC) announced yesterday that it has officially received the parliamentary electoral law approved by the House of Representatives last week.
Libya’s House of Representatives will discuss on Monday, October 11, the adjustments requested by the High National Election Commission regarding the elections legislations, HNEC chairman Imad al-Sayeh told the press today.
Mohamed Sowan, the former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Justice and Construction Party, called on all Libyan parties to reject the parliamentary elections law, which was recently issued by the House of Representative, because it is not based on party-list proportional representation.