The Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Aguila Saleh affirmed the great frustration that afflicted the HoR for not organizing the presidential and parliamentary elections on their scheduled date on December 24 last year for reasons related to the inability and failure of the bodies entrusted with the process in accordance with the political agreement to create a security and social environment to achieve national reconciliation.
In his speech during his participation in the Arab Parliament Conference meeting in Cairo on Saturday, Saleh stressed his commitment to holding elections, which he considered the only and realistic guarantor of achieving the will of Libyans to elect their representatives, with the aim of ending the conflict and resolving the crisis in the country.
Saleh indicated that the House of Representatives did not fail to support the HNEC to implement this entitlement on time, especially in the aspect related to the issuance of the laws for the election of the President and the House of Representatives, and during the period preceding the date set for the elections, it did not stop urging the Presidential Council and the Government of National Unity to carry out its duties and tasks to organize the presidential and parliamentary elections on time, and to preserve the achievements and gains made in the tracks of a comprehensive settlement at the political and military levels.
Saleh added that the House of Representatives formed a parliamentary committee that completed its work by drawing up a road map within the framework of a Libyan-Libyan consensus for the first time since the beginning of the conflict. The debate was then put to a popular referendum so that the HNEC could organize the presidential and parliamentary elections as soon as possible.
