The US and four European powers on Friday urged war-torn Libya to quickly set a new date for delayed presidential elections. The authorities overseeing the country's first-ever presidential election said earlier this week that holding it on Friday as scheduled would be "impossible". - Contentious -Another key issue will be the mandate of the current interim government, which was meant to end Friday with the elections. One contentious issue was a presidential elections law controversially passed by parliamentary speaker Aguila Saleh and endorsed by Kubis. But the delay to elections has once again thrown the political process into doubt, and the potential for new fighting remains ever-present.

Source: Libya Today December 25, 2021 02:47 UTC