TRIPOLI: 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. Registration for Libya’s first ever direct presidential poll on December 24 took place in three commission offices, in Tripoli in the west, Benghazi in the east and Sebha in the south. More than 2.8 million of Libya’s 7 million people are registered to vote. The head of the electoral commission said that so far “more than 1.7 million voters have received their (voting) cards.”

Source: Libya Today November 24, 2021 03:15 UTC