Saif al Islam, the son of the deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, presented his official candidacy for the presidential elections scheduled for December on Sunday, an official from the electoral commission reported.
“The candidate Saif al-Islam Muammar Gaddafi has presented his candidacy for the presidency of the Libyan state,” announced the High Electoral Commission (HNEC), which organizes the presidential elections on December 24 and the parliamentary elections a month later.
“He presented the documents of his candidacy at the HNEC office in Sabha (south), thus completing all the legal conditions required by Law No. 1 on the election of the head of state, adopted by Parliament,” he added in a statement in Facebook.
Saif al Islam, 49, also received his voter card for the 21021 electoral college in the city of Sabha, according to the electoral commission.
The elections will be the culmination of a laborious political process sponsored by the United Nations and are expected to end a decade of chaos since the fall of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, assassinated in 2011 in a popular revolt.
They are also expected to put an end to the fratricidal fighting between the two rival sides, one in the west and the other in the east of the country.
