On its Twitter account, the High Electoral Commission in Libya published a statement in which it said that it was proposing to postpone the presidential elections to next January 24, about a month after the original date.
The commission added that it calls on the House of Representatives to set another date for the election of the president within 30 days, as required by law.
She said that despite her technical readiness to organize the elections, the matter became impossible due to the difficulties she faced, the last of which was the stage of “the appeals that formed the last turning point in the electoral process, and served as the stop at which everyone’s efforts to achieve this electoral benefit stopped.”
She responded to the postponement of the elections due to the “deficiencies of the electoral legislation with regard to the judiciary’s role in electoral appeals and tendencies, which negatively affected the decisions of the commission in defending its decisions, and created a state of uncertainty that the commission’s decisions were right in terms of excluding some candidates who did not apply to them.” the conditions”.
The committee formed by the Libyan House of Representatives, to follow up the electoral process, had previously confirmed the “impossibility” of holding parliamentary and presidential elections in the country, on their scheduled date, December 24.
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