Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, discussed the situation in Libya, among other topics, during a phone conversation on Friday.
Major General Khaled Mahjoub, a media official of the Libyan National Army (LNA), said on Saturday that “it was expected” that the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) would fail to reach an agreement on defining a constitutional basis for the national elections in December.
Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, called on the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) to reach consensus on a formula that would ensure that December elections would be held on time.
Forty three migrants have drowned after their boat sank off Tunisia, the Tunisian Red Crescent said on Saturday. The migrants had set off from the Libyan port of Zuwara and were attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe.
The chairman of the Civil Democratic Party, Muhammad Saad Embark, told the press on Saturday that some members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) attempt to delay the December elections by insisting on holding the constitutional referendum first.
Mesbah Doma, a member of the House of Representatives, said on Saturday that “obstructing the elections will not be in the interest of anyone, but rather it is a disaster for everyone.”
Some members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) plan to obstruct the presidential and parliamentary elections in December 24 by forcing a constitutional referendum instead.
Refaat Mohammed Alabbar, Libya’s Deputy Oil Minister, was in the U.A.E on Thursday, where he met a number of Emirati official to discuss bilateral cooperation.
The Libyan Interior Ministry has closed the country’s the second largest crossing border with Tunisia, known as Wazen Al-Dhiba, due to a recent spike of COVID-19 cases in the neighboring country, sources told Libya Update on Thursday.
Twenty five out of forty five members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) have agreed on a proposal for negotiations on defining the constitutional framework of the December elections, announced Ján Kubiš, the Head United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), on Thursday.