Libya: confusion and tension on the eve of the international conference in Paris
Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, during a press conference in Tripoli, February 25, 2021. AP - Hazem Ahmed
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Confusion reigns in Libya on the eve of the international conference scheduled for Paris this Friday, November 12.
Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibah has refused the electoral law since Sunday, as have the Islamists and the militias in Tripoli.
It is Khaled al-Mechri, a Muslim brother, at the head of the High Council of the State who is leading the rebellion against the electoral law.
He told al-Jazeera that he does not believe the elections could take place on the scheduled date.
On several occasions, he warned against a return to square one, therefore to war, if the elections were not postponed.
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It was following a meeting, Tuesday, November 9, in Tripoli between militia leaders and the president of the High Council of the State Khaled al-Mechri, that 22 leaders denounced the electoral law passed by the parliament for the presidential election of December 24.
They are calling for a referendum on this law.
Requirements that would imply postponing the date of the poll.
Khaled al-Mechri made virulent remarks by inciting the Libyans to boycott "
elections allowing criminals to stand
": He designates without naming them
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
and Marshal Haftar.
After this warning, he moved to Ankara on Wednesday.
The warnings from Paris ...
Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibah has also visited Turkey in recent days.
Returning from Ankara on Sunday, he demanded to change the electoral law, saying he had the support of 49 MPs.
Several deputies quoted said, however, that they were not aware.
Paris, for its part, warned of ambush disruptors who "are
trying to derail the process
".
It is necessary, underlines the French presidency, to make this electoral process “
incontestable and irreversible
”.
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