Libya delays candidate list as likely election postponement looms


FILE PHOTO: People check names to receive their voter cards inside a polling station in Tripoli, Libya, November 8, 2021. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's election commission said on Saturday it would not publish a list of presidential candidates until after it settles some legal issues, leaving almost no time to hold the vote as planned on Dec. 24.

While most Libyan and foreign figures involved in the process have continued to publicly call for the election to go ahead on schedule, politicians, analysts and diplomats all say in private that this would be very hard to achieve.

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