The Libyan parliament again discussed, Tuesday, December 28, the road map and a new calendar for the elections. Its spokesperson announced that a new meeting would take place next week to allow time for more consultations. The parliamentary committee responsible for monitoring the elections and planning for the next period refused on Monday to set a new date for the presidential election, originally scheduled for December 24.
” It would be risky, at this stage, to set a new date for the presidential election “, Indicated Monday the commission in charge of election monitoring, which presented its report in front of 120 deputies gathered during a much awaited session. Thereby, the date of January 24, put forward by the Electoral Commission, is not retained. It nevertheless recommended the establishment of a new roadmap ” realistic and applicable “, Defining milestones but without setting dates for” do not repeat the same mistakes “.
It is because of differences on this roadmap that the meeting held on Tuesday, December 28 was suspended, until next week, indicates Houda Ibrahim, from the Africa service of RFI. The parliament would also like to hear the director of the Electoral Commission, Imad el-Sayeh, and ask him for an explanation of the failure of the Commission to announce the final list of candidates.
The parliamentary election monitoring committee also called for a reshuffle of the executive. She advocated the establishment of a parliamentary group responsible for drawing up a new constitution, after consultation with the various political currents. Differences over the legal basis for the vote had divided Libyans a lot, and disagreements ended up being insurmountable between rival camps.