The researcher and specialist in Libya Jalel Harchaoui said Friday on franceinfo that it is “very likely that everything will be postponed by several months” as the international community meets in Paris to set up a presidential election on December 24.
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The international community is meeting Friday, November 12 in Paris, ten years after the fall of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, to try to help Libya regain stability. Among the first steps, the organization of a presidential election on December 24 before legislative elections a month later.
“The deadline for the first round of the presidential election will not be met”, estimated on franceinfo Jalel Harchaoui, researcher at the Global Initiative organization and specialist in this country. “The polling stations officially exist”, he admitted, before qualifying. “Is the security and transparency around them sufficient? No.”
According to Jalel Harchaoui, “it is very likely that everything will be postponed by several months”. However, “this is not necessarily very bad news”, he judges, because “the electoral laws are not consolidated”. However, according to the specialist, in the event of postponement of the elections, “Some factions are likely to react very badly. This could trigger outbursts of anger and offensives.”
Finally, Jalel Harchaoui noted that there is a “acceptance of the current Prime Minister of Tripoli, Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, who is received in Paris as a head of state”, while he had assured that he did not want to stand for the presidential election last February. “The international community is in the process of accepting its candidacy while this completely contradicts the roadmap of last February at the UN level”, he finished.