According a list of barred candidates issued by the country's High National Elections Committee, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi is ineligible because of previous convictions against him. Libya is set to hold the first round of its presidential elections on 24 December, after years of United Nations-led attempts to usher in a more democratic future and bring the country’s war to an end. Moammar Gadhafi was killed that same year in October amid the ensuing fighting that would turn into a civil war. The Geneva-based diplomat serves as both special envoy for Libya and head of the UN political mission in the country. “You have a moral responsibility towards the developments in my country over the past 10 years,” he told the group.

Source: Libya Today November 25, 2021 04:30 UTC