Saif al-Islam Gaddafi returns to the list of candidates for the elections in Libya

After the High National Elections Commission excluded him from the list of candidates for the presidential elections, Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam returned again to the list after the Sebha Appeals Court issued a decision in this regard.

And Libyan media reported that an appeals court in the south of the country ruled today, Thursday, the second of December, to return Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, to the list of candidates for the scheduled presidential elections, after it accepted an appeal submitted by him to the decision to exclude him from this list.

And local media quoted multiple sources as saying that the Sebha Appeals Court had decided to accept the appeal submitted by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and return him to the electoral race, after the High National Elections Commission excluded him from the list of candidates for the presidential elections for violating the conditions for candidacy under the election law.

  And accounts on social media reported scenes of celebrations organized by a number of supporters and supporters of Saif al-Islam in front of the court building, expressing their joy at his return to the list of candidates for the elections.

Before submitting his candidacy papers in Sebha last October, the appearance and location of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi for years remained ambiguous, and his movements were largely kept secret.

The exclusion of Saif al-Islam came “for violating the conditions of candidacy, in accordance with Article (10) in its clause (7), which stipulates that the candidate must not have been subjected to final judicial rulings in a felony or crime, in addition to violating Article 17 in its fifth clause, which requires The candidate must obtain a “Certificate of Free of History”.

An armed group had arrested Saif al-Islam Gaddafi at the end of 2011 and transferred him to the city of Zintan in the west of the country, before he was brought to trial before the Libyan judiciary.

In 2015, he was sentenced to death by firing squad, after being convicted of charges of involvement in war crimes to suppress the uprising that toppled the regime of his father, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

But the ruling was not carried out.

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