The United Nations mission in Libya urged the members of the Libyan Dialogue Forum to continue consultations to reach a compromise solution, after the forum failed yesterday, Friday, to reach a consensus formula for a constitutional basis for the end-of-year elections, while the President of the Libyan Supreme Council, Khaled Al-Mashri, attributed the failure to the intransigence of some parties and an attempt Imposing elections without specific conditions for candidacy.
The UN mission said that it will continue to work with members of the forum to build common ground based on the proposal of the Legal Committee.
The parties to the Libyan crisis had failed to reach a consensual formula for a constitutional base that would establish the holding of the upcoming elections at the end of this year, after days of talks in Geneva under UN auspices.
Sources told Al Jazeera that the Supreme Council of State will meet this week in Tripoli, to discuss the repercussions of what happened in Geneva, and to take a political position on it.
The Libyan Consensus Committee, held in Geneva, had submitted 3 proposals to vote on the constitutional basis for holding the parliamentary elections scheduled for the end of this year, but it did not obtain the percentage required to pass one of them.
Al-Jazeera correspondent from Tripoli, Ahmed Khalifa, said that the reason for the failure of the talks is the desire of some parties not to set conditions that would prevent retired Major General Khalifa Haftar from entering the presidential race, in addition to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (son of the late President Muammar Gaddafi), which was opposed by the parties. in the forum.
The head of the Libyan Supreme Council, Khaled Al-Mashri, acknowledged the failure of the dialogue forum in reaching common ground, and obstructing the Libyans' hopes of choosing their representatives.
Al-Mashri - on his Twitter account - attributed the reasons for this to the intransigence of some parties, and the attempt to impose elections without specific conditions for candidacy, those conditions that we find in most constitutions, such as preventing the candidacy of military personnel and those with nationalities of foreign countries.
For his part, Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dabaiba urged, via Twitter, all national parties and the UN mission to assume their responsibilities, give priority to the public interest, and agree on a formula that would ensure the holding of elections on time, and enabling the Libyan people to exercise their right to vote.
In turn, the US envoy to Libya, Richard Norland, expressed his country's readiness to help the Libyan government prepare for the elections until the end of its mandate next December.
Norland said - in a statement via Facebook - we closely followed the meetings of the forum in Geneva, including members who are trying not to hold the elections, either by prolonging the constitutional process or creating new conditions for holding it.