Because the elections in Libya were scorched
What happens in Libya. The point of Giuseppe Gagliano
As Al Jazeera reports, "the head of the Libyan National Electoral High Commission (HNEC) has ordered the dissolution of the national electoral committees, in a move that effectively postpones this week's presidential elections."
This concretely means the dissolution of both the offices and the regional and local electoral committees. Apart from the absence – at least at present – of any comment by the current Libyan president and his Egyptian counterpart, the conflicts, also of a tribal nature, mentioned in a previous article have actually undermined credibility of the elections as had been widely expected on the other hand by most observers.
It is not surprising then the decision by the Libyan electoral council to postpone the elections to January 24th.
The postponement should in fact solve the problems that have plagued the preparation of these elections.
We will see if this postponement will actually solve the big problems that have been raised in recent months.
The fact remains, however, that both the UN and the EU are unable to control Libyan tribal logic and this proves once again that Libya remains a political powder keg always ready to explode. At any time.
As pointed out by La Jeune Afrique , there are numerous local and foreign actors behind the scenes exerting considerable pressure to invalidate the elections.
Among these certainly is Gaddafi Seif el-Islam, whose political ambitions cannot fail to annoy many members of the international community, starting with the United States.
But there are also other local actors who arouse strong hostility: the interim prime minister Abdulhamid Dabaiba, very popular in Tripolitania, and Khalifa Haftar, the strong man of Cyrenaica.
For critics of the Prime Minister, the electoral law passed by Parliament does not authorize him to run as a candidate.
But there is another aspect that gives an idea of the situation of profound instability in which Libya finds itself at the moment.
The meeting held in Benghazi on December 21 in the presence of Khalifa Haftar and former Interior Minister Misrati Fathi Bachagha is edifying in this regard.
Formerly political enemies and even military enemies, the two got close last March. Khalifa Haftar also remains open to discussions with his rival Abdulhamid Dabaiba.
As Jeune Afrique reveals, disagreements over the maintenance of the government could set the powder keg on fire.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/libia-elezioni-rinvio/ on Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:36:19 +0000.