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Impossible to hold presidential vote, says Libya parliament
Updated On: 23 December, 2021 08:28 AM IST | Cairo | Agencies
It was the first official statement that the vote would not happen on Friday, although it had been widely expected amid mounting challenges and calls for a delay. For nearly a year, the election was the lynchpin of international efforts to bring peace to Libya
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Seif al-Islam, right, the son of late dictator Moammar Gadhafi registers his candidacy. Pic/AP
A Libyan parliamentary committee said Wednesday that it has become “impossible” to hold a long-awaited presidential election in two days as scheduled, in a major blow to international efforts to end a decade of chaos in the oil-rich country.
It was the first official statement that the vote would not happen on Friday, although it had been widely expected amid mounting challenges and calls for a delay. For nearly a year, the election was the lynchpin of international efforts to bring peace to Libya.
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