Today, Sunday, the two roadmap committees of the House of Representatives and the Supreme Council of State in Libya continued their discussions on the details of the transitional phase.
A member of the island’s Supreme Council of State Committee said that the discussions dealt with proposals on the constitutional path, including the formation of a joint committee of the two councils, the Constituent Assembly and legal experts to draft the constitution.
The member – who declined to be named – added that the joint committee will also study the controversial articles in the draft constitution, and refer its proposal directly to the High National Elections Commission to begin preparing for the referendum process.
In the event that the committee is unable to do so, it will work on preparing a constitutional leadership proposal to conduct general elections on its basis, while referring the draft constitution to the next parliament after its election, according to the same source.
In this context, a member of the Libyan House of Representatives, Abdel Salam Nassiyah, announced today, Sunday, that consensus has been reached on a road map that leads to presidential and parliamentary elections on the basis of a permanent constitution for the country.
And a text – in a tweet to him on Twitter – added that the elections according to the road map will take place during specific periods, calling on the parliament and the state to bear the historical responsibility to restore the state.
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For his part, Hussein al-Qatrani, who is the first deputy prime minister of the Libyan government, called on the presidencies of the House of Representatives, the government, and the Road Map Committee to sit together to develop a clear and time-limited road map that addresses all obstacles and problems.
Al-Qatrani added – in a speech broadcast on social media – that appropriate solutions must be developed, focus on providing food, medicine, and electricity, confronting the Corona virus, creating the climate for holding free and fair elections and accepting their results, and putting aside differences for the benefit of the citizen.
After postponing the presidential elections that were scheduled to take place on December 24 last due to differences over their legal and constitutional frameworks, the Libyan parties are seeking to agree on a specific course of the electoral process.
Several Libyan parties are demanding that a new constitution for the country be first approved through a popular referendum on it before holding the presidential and parliamentary elections.