Both going forward with the elections amidst several unresolved issues, and delaying them could threaten the political strides made in Libya. Opinion | GiorgioCafiero
Libya is at a delicate point in its history. The deeply fractured and divided North African country has the first round of presidential elections officially set for December 24, yet we do not know if the elections will be held that day. Whether or not elections are held then, and whether the second round and parliamentary elections are held in February will matter significantly. But more importantly, how various domestic and foreign actors act in the period following elections matters even more.
“Libya is in a state of limbo at this point because whatever happens is going to be sub-optimal in this very polarised pre-elections environment,” said Dr Andreas Krieg, a senior lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King's College London, in an interview with TRT World. “The three candidates leading in the polls include the GNU’s Prime Minister Abdulhamid Mohammed Al Dabaiba, who pledged he would not run, Saif al Islam Gaddafi who fought violently against the democratic revolution and has not endorsed any of its fruits, and the warlord Khalifa Haftar, who declared war against half the country and, according the United Nations and plaintiffs in several lawsuits, is responsible for innumerable war crimes,” Dr William Lawrence, professor at American University...
Moreover, the courts had excluded two main candidates - ones that would attract most of the vote - Dabaiba and Saif al-Islam, from running, only for them to be apparently reinstated on appeal. This created a situation where the announcement of the final list of candidates was further delayed.
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