Libya should press ahead with national elections even if voters reject a draft constitution in a planned referendum, the Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Aquilah Saleh told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Finance delaying constitution referendum
The delay by the Faiez Serraj Tripoli government in providing the needed finances is the reason for the High National Election Commission’s (HNEC) failure to announce a date for the constitution referendum.
Read More »Libya’s Electoral Commission says referendum preparations reached 90%
The Chairman of the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) Emad Al-Sayeh met in Tobruk with the Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Aqilah Saleh and discussed the preparations of the constitution referendum.
Read More »Preparations for constitutional referendum underway
Member of the High National Elections Commission (HNEC), Abdelhakim Belkheir, has clarified that the HNEC will meet with the House of Representatives next week to review the latest developments on the constitution referendum and to identify the date to be held.
Read More »HoR Speaker calls for accelerating referendum process
Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Aqila Saleh, requested the High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) to expedite the referendum process on the draft constitution.
Read More »Russia believes Saif Gaddafi can run for Libya’s presidential elections
Russia said Monday it believes that no eligible candidate can be deprived of the right to run in the Libyan presidential election, including Saif Islam Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told Sputnik on Monday.
Read More »No Party Can Be Excluded From Libyan Settlement – Moscow
Moscow believes that no eligible candidate can be deprived of the right to run in the Libyan presidential election, including Saif Islam Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told Sputnik on Monday.
Read More »Use Chapter VII to hold elections and force to confront militias : Aref Nayed
Libyan Presidential election candidate, Aref Nayed, said that the international community should use the UN Charter’s Chapter VII powers to hold Libyan elections and that he would use force to confront Libya’s militias.
Read More »HCS rejects HoR’s amendments on referendum law
The head of the High Council of state (HCS) Khaled al-Mishri, informed Wednesday, the Libyan High National Election Commission (HNEC) the HCS’s rejection of the tenth and eleventh amendments approved by the House of Representatives (HoR) on the constitutional declaration.
Read More »Elections in Libya: the difficult way ahead
Since the fall of Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, Libya has had three distinct electoral experiences, which have in turn given birth to three political institutions: the General National Congress (GNC), the Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) and the House of Representatives (HoR).
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