Sharjah24 – AFP: Libya on Monday opened registration for candidates in presidential and parliamentary elections, as the country seeks to move on from a decade of war.
The North African nation's first ever direct presidential elections, with a first round on December 24, come after a year of relative peace following a ceasefire between eastern and western camps in October 2020.
But the United Nations-backed elections process has been overshadowed by wrangling over the legal basis for the votes and the powers of whoever wins.
Candidates are able to lodge applications at offices of the High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) in the three main cities in Libya's west, east and south until November 22, the HNEC said Sunday.
Parliamentary candidates have until December 7 to do so.
Both presidential and parliamentary elections are slated for December 24, but in early October, parliament split the dates of the vote by postponing legislative elections until January.
More than 2.8 million of Libya's seven million residents have registered with the HNEC for the vote.
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