Libyan talks under the auspices of the United Nations launched in the Swiss city of Geneva on Tuesday, aimed at discussing the draft constitutional framework for the elections.
The talks were attended by the President of the Supreme Council of State, Khaled Al-Mashri, and the Speaker of Parliament, Aguila Saleh, and the delegations accompanying them, in the presence of the UN Special Adviser to Libya, Stephanie Williams.
"It is time for a last effort and a courageous decision to ensure that a historic compromise is reached for Libya," Williams said in her opening remarks.
She added that the House of Representatives and the Supreme Council of State in Libya agreed on guarantees, means of safety, and elements that she said were extremely important and indispensable for holding national elections and ending the cycle of transitional stages and temporary periods that the country went through.
unresolved issues
But the UN advisor clarified that there are a number of outstanding issues from the constitutional track committee that was held in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and the two presidencies of the two chambers must reach consensus on them.
For his part, Saleh considered that these meetings are an opportunity to bring the views of the members of the committee in charge of the constitutional base closer, adding - according to the official Libyan News Agency - that the constitution must guarantee freedom, social justice and the preservation of the civil character of the state, and that elections are a condition of stability and a basis for Compatibility, rebuilding, and solving the problems of the displaced, the displaced, and those fleeing chaos.
And Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, said - last Thursday during a press conference in New York - that the priority of the international organization in Libya is to facilitate the holding of elections, on the basis of an agreed constitutional and legal basis.
political crisis
Due to differences between the Libyan official institutions, especially over the electoral law, it was not possible to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in 2021, as part of a UN-sponsored plan to end the conflict in the oil-rich country.
According to the Anatolia news agency, Libya is suffering from economic and security crises, while the political crisis escalated by granting the House of Representatives confidence in the Fathi Bashagha government in early March.
While the Prime Minister of the National Unity Government, Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, refuses to hand over power except to a government that comes through a new parliament elected by the people.
To solve this crisis, the United Nations launched an initiative to form a joint committee of the House of Representatives and the Supreme Council of the State, which concluded its work in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, without accomplishing what it was assigned to do, which is to establish a constitutional basis according to which elections are held.