What is the fate of the deferred Libyan local elections in the light of the escalation of the division?
Since the announcement of the Supreme Commission on Elections in Libya, the result of the first stage of local law on November 24, 2024, and the layer await fate of the second stages of postponed municipal elections.
In the face of an increase in questions about the fate of these elections, a member of the Higher Electoral Commission, Abu Bakr Marda, said that the situation in some areas of the capital is “abnormal”, as for the continuous security stress in Tripoli, but he indicated in the statement to the Auchard -alusat, that this means that this does not mean impossible.
Marda was based in his gratitude that “the commission completed the initial stages of the electoral process in the shadow of a tense environment, especially at two stages of publishing the initial lists of candidates and appeals, as well as the publication of voter lists, and it exceeded it without any obstacles to safety.”
The commission, in turn, says that she began to implement some procedures related to these elections, and her president Imad Al -Seiye performed in the press in the press last weekend, that the Middle August (August) is a ceiling for the date of survey without additional information.
The head of the commission ascribes the reasons for the extension of the time of preparation for the municipal elections “security conditions through which capital passed.”
Although the relatively tense atmosphere remains in the capital, the UN UN UNKB was published in mid -June in the final lists of voters of the second stage and stated that it was during the distribution of voter cards that is the stage of communication with the citizen directly and receives them from the distribution centers, and Marda says: “At this stage, the commission will be clear in capital in the capital.”
At the second stage, the elections should take place in 63 municipalities, of which 41 municipalities are in the Western region, and 13 in the eastern region, in addition to 9 municipalities in the southern region, according to the decision adopted by the commission.
Libyan organized a protest in the Abu Salim area in Tripoli, in which they expressed concern about the procedures related to the election process, which, according to them, were “in exceptional circumstances and safety circumstances that prevented the broad participation of citizens”, and they indicated that “the number of registered voters did not reflect the residential intensity of municipality, and the nominee was in the struggle in the struggle in the struggle in the struggle. With risks.
The member of the Council of the Commission did not exclude the layering of municipal elections in Tripoli, “if there is a confirmed threat, according to the reports of the competent authorities to support the election,” and said: “There are security bodies that control, control and submit risks that we provide us in the election insurance room.”
As a result, he said that “the electoral process continues so far in accordance with its usual procedures.”
As for the security point of view, the former Minister of Internal Affairs Ashur Shaveil “does not see the opportunity to promote municipal elections within the framework of violent safety conditions”, noting that “the survey needs stability of security and teaching citizens about their importance and clarifies their rights and obligations.”
Shopel believes that in the statement of Ashark al -Vausat, that the UN UN UN has passed in the electoral highway, “it proceeds from the prerequisite that this is one of the responsibilities appointed to him, and as the need to begin the practice of democracy that the Libyan people misses to achieve the desired state.”
About 79,000 voters in electoral statements were registered in 13 municipalities in the capital, Tripoli and include: al -Akhiyar palace, al -Kara, Pauli, Friday market, Ain Zara, Abu Selim, Tripoli Al -Markovaya, Al -Andolas -Rayons, Al -E. -E. -Eal -AIZ. -Maya, al -Maamura and Al -Zhrah.
Against the backdrop of talk about security problems in Tripoli, the International Community seeks to demonstrate support for municipal elections. Britain expressed their readiness to provide technical and advisory support for the commission as part of the meeting of the British ambassador Martin Longden with Al -Seye in Tripoli last week.
This conflict between the security situation in Tripoli and international enthusiasm has begun municipal elections, is not satisfied with Libyan analysts, including a professor of political science at the University of Tripoli, Dr. Ahmed Al -Arash.
Al -Artesh promised these meetings to the Western ambassadors with the commission as part of “warnings and dangers” consists in interference, which he called “illegal” for Western countries in internal affairs, which can contribute to “inciting the regional and regional crisis”.
Libya suffers from harsh division, and many political parties in the West and East of Libya adhere to the need to deviate the temporary “government” of the government and the presidency of Abdel Hamid Al -Dubb. And the conversation about the holding of local elections at this time “will not have public interaction in the light of a popular refusal of many spectrum to combat this government”, according to Libyan politicians.
