- Advertisement -Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has said he will support 2018 elections in the war-torn country but also implied he would seize power if the polls did not occur. Late on Thursday, Haftar said presidential and parliamentary elections were “a fundamental solution” to Libya’s crisis and should be held “without delay or fraud”. Haftar’s opponents accuse him of wanting to seize power and establish a military dictatorship, while his supporters have called for him to take control by “popular mandate”. Haftar said this “mandate” could be a possibility “if all classic mechanisms allowing a peaceful power transition via free and democratic elections were exhausted”. The UN Security Council has insisted the December 2015 deal remains the “only viable framework to end the Libyan political crisis” and prepare for elections.

Source: Libya Today December 30, 2017 07:18 UTC