Libya's House of Representatives settles elections controversy
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The Libyan House of Representatives confirms it will meet on the day of the elections to announce that they cannot be held based on reports received from the Electoral Commission.
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The House of Representatives noted that the Electoral Commission is the side responsible to declare the inability to carry out its role.
Libya's House of Representatives confirmed Sunday that postponing the date of the elections before their scheduled date on December 24 is not within its jurisdictions.
The House of Representatives noted that the Libyan Electoral Commission is in fact the responsible party for declaring the inability to carry out the elections.
MP Saleh Afhima said that the House of Representatives will not announce postponing the elections.
Based on received reports from the Electoral Commission and the concerned authorities, the House of Representatives will meet on the 24th of December to announce that the Libyan elections cannot be held, Afhima explained.
The MP said the House will be announcing several measures that will be disclosed at the right time.
A few days back, the High Council of State in Libya called for postponing the December 24 presidential elections until February, amid growing differences over the rules and legal basis for voting aimed at ending the 10-year instability.
For her part, Stephanie Williams, the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on Libyan affairs, said she had met with several presidential candidates and parliamentarians in Tripoli, Misrata and Benghazi, and plans to meet with others to hear their views on the electoral process, she tweeted.
2/2 The meeting comes as part of the wide range consultations I am conducting in various cities with #Libya'n 🇱🇾 institutions, political and security actors, in support of a free, fair and credible electoral process #الانتخابات_الليبية pic.twitter.com/nSh3plbjTY
— Stephanie Turco Williams (@SASGonLibya) December 19, 2021
The Libyan News Agency reported Saturday that the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Hussein Al-Qatrani, met Williams at the Cabinet Office in Benghazi.
The agency indicated that the two discussed the comprehensive national reconciliation and the presidential and parliamentary elections.
Al-Qatrani and Williams stressed the need to provide the appropriate atmosphere for the elections, as well as "solving all the difficulties that may prevent reaching stability in Libya," the news agency reported.
