Libya’s Supreme Council of State, a body that acts as the Senate, on Wednesday called for a postponement of the December 24 presidential election due to ongoing disputes between rival camps.
“The whole political process is in danger of being undermined” if the presidential election is held on the scheduled date due to “tensions, mistrust between the parties and foreign interference,” warned Omar Bosach, Libya’s first vice-president against the Libyan Supreme Council. during a press conference in Tripoli.
“If the elections are held on December 24,” the results will not be accepted, “he said.
The upper house of parliament, based in Tripoli, is proposing that presidential elections be held in February, “at the same time as the parliamentary elections”.
According to the initiative of the Supreme Council of State, “the first mission of the new Parliament will be the drafting of the Constitution, which the North African country has not had since its abolition by former leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1969.
The Supreme Council of State, which has strong rivalry with the House of Representatives based in Tobruk, eastern Libya, also proposes “holding presidential elections with a list, each list consisting of four names: the president and the president.” Council, its two Deputies and the Prime Minister “.
The term of the Parliament and the Presidential Council should be “four years from the date of their election for one term only, non-renewable,” Bosach said.
According to this version, the responsibilities of the Presidential Council and the Prime Minister should be determined by the Parliament and the Supreme State Council.
Libya is trying to emerge from a major political crisis that has lasted since the fall of the former regime in 2011, in the wake of the Arab Spring.
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