ReutersBritain, France, Germany, Italy and the United States on Friday urged war-torn Libya to quickly set a new date for delayed presidential elections. The authorities overseeing Libya's first presidential election said earlier this week holding it on Friday as scheduled would be "impossible." There were bitter disputes over the vote's legal basis, the powers of the winner and the candidacies of several deeply divisive figures. It did not propose an alternative to Friday, a date set last year during UN-led peace talks in Tunis. But with vast stockpiles of weapons left behind by the Qadhafi regime, the potential for new fighting in Libya remains ever-present.

Source: Libya Today December 25, 2021 08:21 UTC