Libya: Parliament adopts electoral law governing parliamentary elections

Its parliament Libya has passed the electoral law governing the parliamentary elections, its representative announced yesterday, more than three weeks after the adoption of a controversial law that defines the presidential part of the double voting, which is scheduled to take place in December.

“Approval of the electoral law for the House of Representatives during today’s sitting,” the parliament spokesman announced via Twitter.

Libya, plunged into chaos after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, is trying to emerge from a decade of conflict marked by rival power and bloody violence.

Following the end of fighting in the summer of 2020 between the two rival camps, a unified and transitional government was formed in March to lead the transition. The formation of this government at the end of a UN-sponsored political process offered a glimmer of hope.

The government, led by businessman Abdelhamid Dbeiba, was commissioned by 75 Libyan figures from all UN-sponsored factions to unite the institutions and complete the endless political transition by holding parliamentary and presidential elections on December 24.

The law on parliamentary elections was adopted more than three weeks after the adoption by the Tobruk-based parliament in eastern Libya of a law governing the election of the next president, which was ratified without a vote and favors the strong Eastern Libya man, Khalifa Haftar, to the displeasure of the Tripoli authorities.

Decisive for the country’s future, these elections remain hypothetical, due to the intense divisions that continue to rage among the Libyan guards. The election campaign has not yet begun. Representatives of the Libyan Supreme Council (HCE), a Senate-based body in Tripoli, and parliament met last week in Rabat, Morocco, without calling for an agreement on the controversial presidential election law. the international community to support the political process in the country

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