During the last 24 hours, several developments emerged regarding the electoral process scheduled for December 24, when the commission was expected to announce today the list of candidates for the first round of the presidential elections, but several variables prevented that… So what are these variables? Will it affect in any way the conduct of the electoral process?
new variables
The Presidency of the House of Representatives invites members of the House to an official session today, Tuesday, to discuss the latest developments in the electoral process, while the Head of the High Commission, Imad Al-Sayeh, said in a press statement that he will meet with Parliament Speaker Aqila Saleh in Al Qoba to talk about the latest developments related to the electoral process.
remedy the situation
For his part, journalist and writer Abdul Aziz Al-Ghanai said in a statement to Arraed that members of the House of Representatives have questions about the mechanism of dealing with the election law by the judiciary and the commission, especially with destroying some of its articles completely, in order to remedy the situation of the electoral process that has become threatened with failure, especially after the articles of the President’s Election Law were not implemented. .
During his statements, Al-Ghanai expected that the elections would be postponed and a new mechanism would be considered to push the electoral process towards more transparency, greater restrictions and enforcement of the law in its entirety and its articles.
Postponing the elections
As for the writer and political analyst, Faraj Farkash, he expected, in a statement to Arraed, that the despair of the parliamentarians to hold a session whose main goal is to prevent the commission from publishing the final list of presidential candidates and to demand the postponement of the elections after that law ( the tailor made election law and its illogical amendments ) scored a own goal on the House of Representatives, However, achieving this depends on the extent of the response of the American side and some of the European side who still insist on proceeding with the electoral process, and we may see that these two sides may have come together, especially after Saif al-Islam passed the stage of appeals.
Farkash explained that this quick call to hold a session of the House of Representatives is not motivated by a patriotism or to save the electoral process, as they claim, but rather to avoid the repercussions of the tailor made flawed law that was drafted and issued by the House of Representatives away from the spirit of consensus, especially after the candidacy of personalities that the dominant bloc in the House of Representatives expected to be excluded, including Abdul Hamid Dbaiba and Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, whose candidacy and being on the final list endanger the chances of other candidates, led by Khalifa Haftar.
legal violation
As for Parliament member Jibril Auhaida, he considered, in a press statement, the announcement of the President of the Commission to meet with a presidential candidate to discuss the electoral process as a legal violation.
Auhaida added, denouncing: Doesn’t the president of the commission know that Aqila is no longer a speaker of parliament? He pointed out that Al-Sayeh’s meeting with Aqila to discuss the electoral process was merely a confusion
Request for accountability
On Sunday, 72 members of the House of Representatives demanded, in a statement, the presidency of the Council to hold a session, Monday; To hold the Head of the Electoral Commission, Imad al-Sayeh, and representatives of the security and judicial institutions accountable; “In order to assess the situation and save the electoral process on time in an appropriate security and political environment in accordance with the issued legislation.”
In their statement, the deputies said that they are following “with great concern” what they described as “the negative developments of the electoral process, the failure to implement the law and circumventing it by the judicial institutions and the High Electoral Commission, and their silence on suspicions of fraud, vote buying and influencing the judiciary through intimidation and temptation,” according to the statement.
