Seif Al-Islam Gaddafi is wanted by the International Criminal Court for “crimes against humanity”, but that didn’t stop him from showing up. The presidential election of December 24 and the legislative elections scheduled for a month later are supposed to turn the page on a decade of chaos since the fall of the dictator.
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The son of the former Libyan dictator Muammar Kadhafi, Seif Al-Islam, submitted his candidacy for the presidential election scheduled for the end of December on Sunday, November 14. While he is wanted by the International Criminal Court for “crimes against humanity” and that it was not known where he was in recent years, the 49-year-old presented himself on the air of the electoral commission (HNEC) in Sebha, according to images relayed by the local media.
He thus completed “all the legal conditions required by Law No. 1 relating to the election of the Head of State”, announced the HNEC in a press release. He also had his voter card issued.
At the end of July, Seif Al-Islam had mentioned in an interview with New York Times his possible return to the political scene. The culmination of a laborious political process sponsored by the UN, the presidential election of December 24 and the legislative elections scheduled for a month later are supposed to turn the page on a decade of chaos since the fall of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed in 2011 during a popular revolt. The polls remain very uncertain, however, against a backdrop of renewed tensions between the rival camps, installed in the West and in the East, as the deadline approaches.