It is well within the bounds of possibility that by now the Gaddafi regime could again be in power in Libya, with a son of the former ruler its newly elected president. Presidential elections were due to take place in Libya on December 24, to be followed by a parliamentary poll. One major difficulty was the fact that no official list of candidates had been agreed and, according to the rules governing the vote, candidates have the right to two weeks of official campaigning after the publication of the definitive list. In 2015, a domestic Libyan court had found him guilty of war crimes committed during the violent uprising against his father, and sentenced him to death in absentia. Under the terms of an agreement signed on 27 November 2019, Turkey undertook to provide the GNA with security and state-of-the-art military technology.

Source: Libya Today January 14, 2022 17:46 UTC