Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeiba supported on Thursday the national elections will take place on 24 December, as set out in the UN-backed peace plan.
In his speech at the Libyan Stabilization Conference in Tripoli, he said the end of the protracted crisis that engulfed the country after the NATO-backed uprising that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
“We support the efforts of the Higher Electoral Commission to hold (vote) on schedule. I call for broad and effective Libyan participation in the elections, “said Dbeiba.
The elections, negotiated through a UN-backed peace process, were seen as a key step in ending decades of violence. creation of a new political leadership. whose legitimacy is widely recognized.
Debates on the constitutional basis of elections, electoral rules and doubts about their reliability threaten to undermine the peace process.
The United Nations has called for presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 December.
Although parliament passed a law on presidential elections that day, it passed a separate law stating that parliamentary elections would be held later. Other political institutions in Libya have rejected parliamentary proposals.