Libya reveals the reasons for the exclusion of 340 candidates from the municipal elections – the seventh day

The National High Commissioner for the Libyan Elections has excluded 340 candidates for the municipal council elections “the second group), and the articles of the Commission Council Resolution No. 60 of 2025 attributed the exclusion of these candidates to the correspondence of the Libyan Attorney General regarding the results of the examination and audit of the criminal status of the municipal council elections candidates.

In turn, a member of the Board of Directors of the Libyan Electoral Commission, Abu Bakr Marda, revealed that the Commission issued several decisions on the municipal elections, the first of which is Resolution No. 59 regarding the extension of the voter registration period for a week as a final opportunity for Libyan citizens who did not include their names in the registration system voters in the target municipalities during this stage, the second group of 62 municipal councils in various parts of the country.

Marada indicated in exclusive statements to “The Seventh Day” to the Commission for Decision No. 60 regarding the exclusion of approximately 340 candidates for reasons, including the failure of Article 16 of the regulations 43 of 2023 to implement the electoral operations to elect the municipal councils, as well as Resolution No. 61 regarding the approval of the initial lists of candidates for the second group.

He pointed out that all of these decisions are subject to electoral appeals by those with an interest in the appeal during the legal period specified in accordance with the executive regulations No. 43, stressing that this stage is followed by the stage of distributing the voter card in preparation for reaching the day of polling, which is set for later.

The first phase of the Libyan municipal elections took place last November, and during this stage it did not appear taking into account the small size of these municipalities, and the limited political and military impacts on their voters.

On the other hand, during the past two days, the capital, Tripoli, witnessed some military manifestations that have brought back the scene of armed mobilization that were spreading in the city from time to time, foreshadowed by Saddam and an imminent between the major military formations that share influence in the region, which raised the concern of many residents and made them in anticipation.

These manifestations were to monitor a military convoy from the city of Misurata after the end of the Eid Al -Fitr holiday, without an official comment by the government of national unity, especially the Ministry of Defense.

A large number of armed formations of their elements are mobilized in several cities in western Libya, with talks that hesitate about Saddam and an imminent between regional militias as part of their struggle on oil and gas cakes and influence inside and outside Tripoli.

In Tripoli, the Central Bank of Libya said that the phenomenon of high unofficial expatriate workers and irregular migration drains approximately $ 7 billion annually.

The Libyan bank indicated in a statement that informal expatriate workers and irregular migration increased the consumption of goods and demand for foreign currencies in the parallel market, which has become all illegal activities and expands the phenomenon of money laundering and terrorist financing in this market.

He pointed out that the inability to fight and reduce the phenomenon of smuggling of goods and fuel contributed to the exacerbation of the crisis as a result of the increased demand for the import of goods and fuels and the exhaustion of foreign exchange available to the central bank.

The Central Bank of Libya in Tripoli announced, last Sunday, the reduction of the dinar exchange rate against foreign currencies 13.3%, with a value of 5.5677 Libyan dinars per dollar.

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