Muammar Gaddafi's son disqualified from standing in Libya election
Source: Reuters
Muammar Gaddafi’s son disqualified from standing in Libya election
Reuters
Wed 24 Nov 2021 19.57 GMT
Libya’s election commission said on Wednesday that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the former ruler and a strong candidate in December’s planned presidential election, was ineligible to run, compounding the turmoil surrounding the vote.
Gaddafi was one of 25 candidates that the commission disqualified in an initial decision pending an appeals process that will ultimately be decided by the judiciary. Ninety-eight Libyans registered as candidates.
Disputes over the election rules, including the legal basis of the vote and who should be eligible to stand, threaten to derail an internationally backed peace process aimed at ending a decade of factional chaos.
The military prosecutor in Tripoli had urged the commission to rule out Gaddafi after his conviction in absentia on war crimes charges in 2015 for his part in fighting the revolution that toppled his father, Muammar Gaddafi, in 2011. Gaddafi has denied wrongdoing.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/24/muammar-gaddafis-son-disqualified-from-standing-in-libya-election
Alternate Reuters link: Libya election panel rejects Gaddafi's son as presidential candidate
