Abdul Hamid Dbaiba returned to his duties as prime minister after announcement to postpone the presidential elections, which were scheduled for December 24.
On Tuesday, Dbaiba attended the ceremony of distributing marriage support grant cheques to municipal representatives in Libya, in his first official appearance as prime minister since assigning his deputy Ramadan Abu Jinnah his duties, after announcing his candidacy to run in the presidential elections.
In a statement to Reuters on Monday, the UN advisor, Stephanie Williams, stressed that the elections should be held according to equal criteria, in which no candidate would have the advantage in holding an official position.
Williams said that all those who were running for executive authority positions during the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum process made written pledges not to run in these elections.
In a joint statement, the countries of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the United States of America confirmed, on Friday, that the candidates who occupy positions in state institutions should leave these positions so that there is no conflict of interest, according to their statement. In their statement, the countries called on the current Libyan authorities to respect the aspirations of the Libyan people.
It is worth noting that Article 12 of the President’s Election Law stipulates that the candidate leave his post three months before the elections, and this is the article on which some candidates relied on to challenge the prime minister’s candidacy for the presidency before the judiciary returned him to the electoral race.
