The UN-led peace process should have culminated in national elections on December 24. However, on Tuesday evening the High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) ordered the dissolution of the electoral committees in Libya. This view is echoed by political scientist Asma Khalifa, who researches Libya at the Hamburg-based Leibniz Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). The interim minister was appointed by the UN in February this year to prepare the national elections. "Ten years on from a popular uprising that demanded freedoms and rights, the front runners of this national election are all Gadhafi-era politicians."

Source: Libya Today December 21, 2021 20:48 UTC