TRIPOLI —
Libya’s Tripoli-based Presidential Council on
Tuesday announced a plan to extract the country from its latest political
crisis and hold elections.
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“In response to the legitimate demands of the Libyan
people and their desire for change, the
Presidential Council ... agreed on a
general framework for a working plan to resolve the country’s political
deadlock,” it said in a statement.
The council did not provide details, but said the
plan would “preserve Libya’s national unity, end the spectra of war (and) put
an end to foreign intervention”.
Abdallah Al-Lafi, the deputy head of the
three-member council, was charged with holding “urgent consultations with
political actors to reach an agreement on the details then lay out a clear
roadmap to end the transitional phase via elections”.
Libya fell into more than a decade of crisis after
the fall of longtime dictator
Muammar Gaddafi in a 2011 NATO-backed uprising.
Presidential and legislative elections were
originally scheduled for December 2021 to cap a UN-sponsored peace process
following the last round of large-scale fighting.
But they were postponed indefinitely due to sharp
differences over controversial candidates and the rules for participating.
The initiative by the Presidential Council, itself a
product of the UN-backed peace process, comes in response to repeated calls by
Libyan political actors for it to intervene to find a solution to the crisis
and hold elections “as soon as possible”, according to the statement.
Since Friday, several Libyan cities have seen angry
protests over poor living standards, long power cuts, soaring inflation and
endless queues at gas stations.
Public anger is largely directly at two rival
governments and the two chambers of parliament, seen as symbols of the
country’s division.
The Presidential Council has also been singled out
and accused of not doing enough to break the deadlock.
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