The suspension of the vote of December 24, lack of agreement on candidates, undermines the efforts of reconciliation between tripolitan and cyrenaic.
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it was to be the election of renewal in Libya, the polling station solemn the reconciliation between the rival camps of the West (tripolitan) and the east (cyrenaic), which was slowly operated, but surely, since the Establishment of a “National Union Government” (Gun) in the spring. The presidential election, originally scheduled for 24 December, will not be held. The Committee of Parliament, sitting in Tobrouk (East), in charge of the vote, has been forced to recognize, Wednesday, December 22, forty-eight hours before the deadline, “the impossibility” to organize such consultation. lack of consensus between Libyan factions, as much on the procedures and the list of candidates.
The High National Electoral Commission (HCEN), independent body, immediately proposed a one-month reporter, but such an option seems very hypothetical with regard to the magnitude of disagreements. The uncertainty also surrounds, by Ricochet, the legislative elections that had to follow. The first return to the polls in Libya since 2014, supposed to bring out a new political class to break with the country that has plunged into the chaos from the 2011 revolution, so has aborted. Factions, enkytas in military and financial annuities, related to oil revenues and various trafficking, were obviously not ready to assume electoral hazards. The United Nations and Western capitals game, which have precipited by the poll, despite the fragility of its legal basis, established unilaterally by a faction of the tobrouk parliament, has hardly arranged things.
A slight wind of optimism had however blown on Libya in March when, after a UN mediation, the Gun led by Abdelhamid Dbeibah, a businessman of misstate to heterogeneous supports . It had managed to bring together representatives of the two politico-military blocks – the de facto cyrenaic controlled by the Praetorian figure of Marshal Khalifa Haftar, and the tripolitan held by a complex of militias claiming the majority of the “revolution” anti- Gaddafi – whose confrontation in 2014-15 then in 2019-2020 had deepened the partition of the country.
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