Libya requires a constitution before the delayed presidential and parliamentary elections can take place, the country's interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah said on Sunday. "Now more than ever we need a constitution that protects the country and its citizens, and that governs the elections," Dbeibah told a symposium in the capital Tripoli titled: "The constitution first." Libya collapsed into years of violence after the 2011 overthrow and killing, during a NATO-backed revolt, of dictator Moammar Gadhafi who scrapped the country's constitution in 1969. Saleh on Tuesday proposed establishing a new commission of Libyan and foreign experts to draw up a new draft constitution. The lawmakers also called to hold parliamentary and presidential elections "at the earliest possible time."

Source: Libya Today January 24, 2022 06:42 UTC