The Egyptian city of Hurghada hosted, for the third time, constitutional talks between the Libyan parties that lasted for three days, with a declared goal to create a constitutional and legal basis for holding elections.
Ambiguity surrounded the third meeting, as the official statement detailing the agreements and understandings and the most prominent recommendations as well as results was not distributed, with the exception of brief statements by some of the participants.
For his part, a member of the Constitutional Track Committee, Ezz El Din Qouireb, affirmed on his personal Facebook page that the participants agreed at the outset that proceeding with the constitutional referendum process is an authentic right and path.
He pointed out that the committee had developed an alternative scenario in the event that the referendum could not proceed for any reason, or in the event that the permanent constitution was not the basis for the parliamentary and presidential elections or was not ready before 24 December, for direct presidential and parliamentary elections to take place according to the original February proposal.
He said this means fulfilling the two entitlements simultaneously without submitting another entitlement and delaying that the referendum process will be completed naturally later, i.e. after the elections scheduled to take place at the end of this year.
An important result that was not released in an official statement or press conference, which aims to lay down a constitutional framework for the upcoming elections, but the failure to disclose it officially and through the media raises some doubts and fears and creates an aura of ambiguity around the outputs.
Despite all these doubts, the hopes of the Libyans remain based on the success of these meetings and dialogues that prevented the countries of the world to cross the Libyan crisis from the dark tunnel to the shore of safety.
