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Libyan elections are possible this year, U.N. envoy says

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Last updated: 2023/03/11 at 4:56 PM
News Room Published March 11, 2023
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TRIPOLI, March 11 (Reuters) – U.N. Libya envoy Abdoulaye Bathily said on Saturday that if a clear road map and electoral laws are in put in place by June, national elections could be held by the end of the year.

A political process to resolve more than a decade of conflict in Libya has been stalled since an election scheduled for December 2021 collapsed amid disputes over the eligibility of major candidates.

Bathily last month announced a new initiative to break the deadlock by creating a steering committee to enable the elections, seen as critical to any lasting peace.

On Saturday, he told a news conference in Tripoli that the two legislative bodies, the House of Representatives and the High State Council, had agreed to form a joint committee of six members each to draft electoral laws, adding: “There is no reason for any more delay.”

However, the two chambers have spent years negotiating about the political system without moving closer to elections that would in effect replace them.

The House of Representatives was elected in 2014, while the High State Council was formed as part of a 2015 political agreement and drawn from a parliament elected in 2012.

Libya’s interim government, put in place in early 2021 through a U.N.-backed peace plan, was only supposed to last until the election scheduled for December that year, and its legitimacy is now also disputed.

“Successive interim arrangements, endless transition governments, legislative bodies whose terms of office have expired are a source of instability,” Bathily said.

Libya has had little peace since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising ousted the autocrat Muammar Gaddafi. Since 2014, political control has been split between rival eastern and western factions, with the last major bout of conflict ending in 2020.

Reporting by Reuters Libya newsroom; Writing by Angus McDowall; Editing by Kevin Liffey

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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