LIBYA’S Interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah has registered as a candidate for the presidency.
This is despite having vowed not to do so as a condition of taking his current post and despite contested election rules that may prevent him from standing.
Dbeibah’s entry into a race that now features many of Libya’s main players of the past decade of chaos add to the turmoil over a vote that is due to take place within five weeks, but for which rules have not yet been agreed.
Parliamentary and presidential elections on Dec. 24 were demanded by a U.N. political forum last year as part of a roadmap to end Libya’s civil war.
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