” Organizing free elections in good conditions in Libya requires nine months of preparation “. This was announced by the parliamentary committee in charge of monitoring the elections, during the parliamentary session held on Monday January 24 in Tobruk in eastern Libya in the presence of more than 100 deputies. Before having elections, several leaders in the East as in the West first demand a Constitution.
Libya’s parliament is moving towards forming a commission to work on a new constitution to replace the one suspended by Muammar Gaddafi in 1969 following his coup.
To write a new draft Constitution, the President of Parliament proposed to form a commission of mixed experts, between parliamentarians and non-parliamentarians. A divisive proposal which will be discussed today by the deputies.
For its part, the Libyan western camp in Tripoli is attached to the draft Constitution of 2017 drafted by a parliamentary commission and submitted to Parliament to be the subject of a referendum. But the project was buried, as were the amendments mentioned for a moment.
On Sunday, interim Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah called for the drafting of a Constitution that “ protects the country and its citizens and governs the elections “. It was during a symposium entitled ” the constitution first in the presence of dignitaries from western Libya. The West just seeks to amend the 2017 Constitution and refuses a new Constitution.
The subject therefore divides deeply and we are not talking about the same draft Constitution, at the risk of threatening once again the elections originally scheduled for December 24 and for which a new date has not yet been announced.
The international community urges the Libyans to define a roadmap with a precise and rapid date for the ballot.