Libya’s electoral commission said Tuesday that 98 candidates, including two women, had registered to run in a presidential election scheduled for December. “The candidate registration platform has received the papers of 98 candidates who met the conditions,” the head of the electoral commission, Imad al-Sayeh, told a Tripoli press conference. Among the most notable hopefuls are Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of dictator Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi, and Khalifa Haftar, leader of the self-styled Libyan National Army in control of the country’s east and parts of the south. Also in the running are…

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