The Head of the high Council of State (HCS) Khalid Al-Mishri, has revealed to Libya Alahrar TV that the UN Secretary General’s Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, is going to announce a plan to save the electoral process.
Al-Mishri added in an interview with Libya Alahrar on Friday that Williams’s plan is going to be announced next week, adding that they are not thinking of replacing the current interim executive authority and that he himself wouldn’t be part of any new interim authority.
He also denied all the rumors about him being part of an understanding with House of Representatives’ Speaker Aqila Saleh, and the presidential candidate Fathi Bashagha to form a new authority, adding that he had filed a defamation case with the Public Prosecutor.
“I have been in contact with Saleh as he is the Speaker of the HoR in order to reach consensus on the constitutional basis of the election and the election laws. There must be full consensus between the HoR and the HCS to end the political stalemate and that could happen by issuing consensual election laws.” Al-Mishri added.
He also accused foreign parties and ambassadors of meddling in the electoral process and of pressuring the High National Elections Commission as well as the HoR and the Supreme Judicial Council to hold elections with flawed laws.
Al-Mishri criticized the Prime Minister, Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, for not committing to his verbal and written oath not to run for presidential elections on December 24, an oath he signed at Geneva dialogue of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, stressing that Dbeibah cannot be asked to abstain from running for president of Libya while dual citizens, military officials, men with criminal records have been accepted to the race.
“I’d rather see Dbeibah win the election than Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi and Khalifa Haftar. Saif cannot be a presidential candidate, he is wanted and must turn himself in to the judicial authorities. The HoR’s amnesty doesn’t include Saif Gaddafi.” Al-Mishri remarked.
He reaffirmed that even the US is opposed to the candidacy of Saif Gaddafi in the presidential election, while Russia insists he must run, adding that foreign intervention in elections has reached an unacceptable limit.
