![]() Saif Al-Gaddafi: One of the surviving sons of the slain dictator, is the most infamous of the candidates. The prospect of presidential elections in Libya is further clouded by the controversies that surround the leading candidates. Meanwhile, the country was riven by ideological differences over the role of former regime officials and the extent to which the aim of the 2011 revolution was to radically transform Libyan society. Terrorism had taken root, particularly in the east, while militias of all political stripes laid claim to key state assets and institutions. ![]() In the wake of the 2011 armed uprising that ousted the longstanding regime of Muammar Gaddafi, the political, economic, and security challenges confronting Libya’s transitional leaders proliferated beyond their control. Libya’s current civil war emerged in 2014 following divisive elections for a new interim authority. Two leading observers of the Libyan crisis argued in early December that the proposed elections would likely perpetuate the conflict by simply shifting the terrain of struggle from military operations to political institutions. Whether elections will be able to seal the breach in the Libyan polity remains an open question. But it has done little to reconcile the main warring factions. This peace process succeeded in late 2020 in ending - for the time being - much of the fighting in Libya’s seven-year civil war. Its aim was to bookend an internationally led peace process by electing a new interim government acceptable to a majority of Libyans. The December vote would have coincided with country’s 1951 independence date. ![]() UN mediators are now hoping to build a domestic and international consensus for June elections. ![]() Since then, all preparations have ground to a halt. Citing legal, logistical and security issues, the officials proposed a new date one month later to coincide with already-postponed legislative elections. Two days before Libyans were to go to the ballots for a new interim president on December 24, the country’s election officials finally admitted what had become obvious: the first-round vote would not take place. ![]()
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