Since the postponement of the expected Libyan elections, which were scheduled to start on December 24, 2021, the story of the postponement became like a snowball tossed by legislative parties and political currents, each bearing responsibility for the other.
The House of Representatives did not stop the proposals and the formation of committees even before the postponement. The beginning was with the formation of a committee called the “Election Follow-up Committee in the Libyan Parliament” headed by Al-Hadi Al-Saghir.
It did not take long for the Parliament to form a committee comprising ten of its members to prepare a proposal for a road map after postponing the presidential elections.
At that time, the Parliament stated on its official website that the committee would submit its report to the office of the Presidency within a week.
The Road Map Committee was formed of the representatives: Nasr El-Din Miftah as Chairman, with the membership of Abdel Salam Nassa, Misbah Uhaida, Muhammad Salih, Issa Muhammad Al-Araibi, Miftah Al-Kartaihi, Muhammad Tamer, Khaled Al-Osta, Suleiman Al-Faqih and Al-Mabrouk Al-Kabeer.
Between this committee and previous ones, there are other committees, perhaps the most recent of which is the outcome of Parliament, which the Speaker of the House of Representatives presented to the members on Tuesday with a proposal to form a committee of 30 specialists to draft the constitution instead of the draft constitution that has been ready since 2017 – and the proposal would postpone the elections for several months and perhaps years – according to what the parliament’s opponents believe.
This is an example of the bureaucracy of the legislative movement from the Parliament and the High State Council, in addition to the refusal of Dabaiba and his government to give up their positions and other apparent indications of the unanimous pursuit of elections as well as the secret concealment of everyone’s obstruction. Meanwhile, the Security Council has threatened to use sanctions against the obstructionists in Libya.
In an interview with an American channel, Stephanie Williams said that the entire political class in Libya has been involved in the obstruction process, pointing out that “the House of Representatives must set a final date for the elections.”
She said on Twitter that the speed with which political actors and those who have power on the ground turn from being constructive elements to being obstructive is remarkable when they feel that their personal interests or that the interests of their “expired” institutions are threatened, stressing the necessity of maintaining a peaceful approach in resolving political differences instead of using force.
