Libyan political party wants presidential election delayed | Election Issues

The High State Council has stated that the election of the president and all members of parliament should be held on the same day.

The High State Council (HSC) has called for a postponement of the presidential election from December 24 to February as disputes over the rule of law and electoral disputes intensify for a decade.

The announcement came Wednesday, less than three weeks after the vote. The Advisory Council, formed through the 2015 peace agreement, but is unknown to all other political parties in Libya.

In Libya’s political turmoil, HSC’s growing power has been controversial, but his words have been added. doubts about the election.

The National Electoral Commission (IEC) has not yet announced the final list of candidates for the presidential election following a flawed court order involving 98 registered candidates.

Controversy of others wanting more division, including large numbers of the Libyan conflict, have already threatened to disrupt elections.

The controversy exposed deep-seated divisions over the voting process that have already separated from the United Nations-based system of voting, as well as controversy. electoral law issued in September by the speaker of parliament.

The UN-backed system thinks the election is a way to resolve disputes over the legitimacy of Libya’s rival political parties, which were formed during the 2011 coup that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.

The HSC was taken from the members of the 2012 general assembly who rejected the results of the 2014 elections that created the current parliament, the House of Representatives (HoR).

Even the 2015 political agreement that provided the legal component of the HoR and HSC’s mandate, they do not legally recognize each other, despite holding regular peace talks in Morocco.

Fear of trouble

Some Libyans fear that the ongoing electoral disputes could lead to a crisis similar to that of the 2014 election, when Libya was divided between western and eastern forces and similar regimes in Tripoli and Benghazi.

HSC spokesman Wednesday said the presidential and parliamentary elections should be held on the same day, as required by the UN system.

Legislation passed in September and October by HoR spokesman Aguila Saleh, the presidential candidate, voted for the first president on December 24 but delayed the parliamentary vote.

Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Saleh and his colleagues deny any wrongdoing and say the rules were well established.