Libyan PM wants constitution before elections

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Al-Araby

Libya’s interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah on Sunday called for a constitution to be established before holding delayed presidential and parliamentary elections. “Now more than ever we need a constitution that protects the country and its citizens, and that governs the elections,” Dbeibah said. Libya collapsed into years of violence after the 2011 overthrow and killing, of dictator Moamer Ghadaffi who scrapped the country’s constitution in 1969. Rival power bases and administrations arose in the country’s east and west. After a landmark ceasefire in 2020, a United Nations-led process sa…

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