{"id":767,"date":"2023-05-23T18:24:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T18:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=767"},"modified":"2023-05-23T21:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:31:45","slug":"libya-joint-commission-starts-talks-on-election-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/libya-joint-commission-starts-talks-on-election-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: joint commission starts talks on election laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of the joint commission (6+6) put together by the UN-backed High Council of State in Tripoli and the Libyan House of Representatives controlled by General Khalifa Haftar in east Libya, are reported to be meeting in the Moroccan city of Bouznika. Italian news agency\u00a0Nova<\/i>\u00a0noted that the meeting started on Monday and is expected to last for a week.<\/p>\n

The agenda for the meeting includes the election laws which will be used to govern the conduct of Libya’s legislative and presidential elections. The discussions stem from the roadmap announced at the end of February by UN envoy Abdallah Batili. Representatives of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) are attending the meetings.<\/p>\n

The Bouznika meeting is part of a series hosted by Morocco, bringing together different Libyan parties to deepen the dialogue on ways and means to settle the crisis in the North African country. Morocco has previously brokered meetings and deals between Libyan rivals including the Skhirat agreement which still serves as a reference for a political and peaceful settlement of the.<\/p>\n

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Since 2012, multiple failed political transitions have taken their toll on the Libyan people. The continued and increasingly complex internal divisions and external vectors affecting Libya threaten to send it into another spiral of crisis and violence. Local and national leaders working in good faith to stabilize the country have inevitably grown cynical as ruling elites and their international partners fail to deliver local security and good governance.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Rebel groups based out of Tripoli and Misurata from the start of the uprising in Libya on April 8, 2011, near Ajdabiyeh. (Bryan Denton\/The New York Times)]<\/figcaption><\/figure>
The convoluted divisions and alliances between Libya\u2019s \u201cpolitical dinosaurs<\/a>\u201d\u00a0block progress toward reunifying the rival eastern and western governments. Also, the continued marginalization and instrumentalization of the people and resources of the Fezzan \u2014 in Libya\u2019s southwest \u2014 keep it the most depressed region of the country, vulnerable to transnational criminal networks and violent extremists. The social and political landscape remains fraught at a time when the U.N. has\u00a0announced new plans<\/a>\u00a0to support Libya to move toward democratic national elections before the end of the year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Internal and External Challenges<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The recent Eid al-Fitr holiday exposed how social tensions in Libya can be intertwined with toxic identity politics. The general religious authority for Awqaf in the East and the Dar al Iftaa in the West, which are aligned respectively with the Parliament in Tobruk and the Government of National Unity in Tripoli,\u00a0disagreed on the day of the official Eid celebration<\/a>, marking the first time such a division has taken place in Libya.\u00a0This is just one highly visible example of how the disjointed politics are impacting civil society.<\/p>\n

Rabbis from 3 continents gather in Morocco for Jewish conference<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n