The German Ambassador to Libya, Michael Ohnmacht tweeted regarding the 2018 terrorist attack on the Libyan High National Elections Commission (HNEC).
“Their target: Libya’s democracy. The victims of the murderers: Innocent Libyans who tried to contribute to peace and stability in Libya. Today, let us remember the victims and extend our condolences to their families,” he noted.
In turn, HNEC said that “the hands of treachery and betrayal targeted the headquarters of the commission in a terrorist attack on May 2, 2018, in which thirteen martyrs died. They wrote with their blood an epic of sacrifice and redemption, that history records in its brightest national pages.”
The commission renewed its “determination to follow the path of struggle in order to achieve the aspirations of three million Libyans, men and women, who registered to vote.”
It confirmed that “the ballot box is the civilizational criterion for change, renaissance, and construction.”
Notably, Fathhallah Al-Sariri, a member of Libya’s 6+6 Joint Committee said that they will hold meetings in Libya on Wednesday. The committee is tasked with establishing the nation’s electoral laws.
He said in press remarks that the committee will “discuss priorities and working mechanisms, and determine the times and locations for the next meeting.”
Al-Sariri added that the committee will “work to lay legal and technical foundations for joint work in the spirit of one team.”
He stressed that they would “exert all efforts to fulfil the people’s desires to hold Parliamentary and Presidential elections.”
The committee was formed by the Libyan Parliament and the High Council of State (HCS) to establish electoral laws under the 13th Constitutional Amendment.
Libya has been in chaos since a NATO-backed uprising toppled longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The county has for years been split between rival administrations, each backed by rogue militias and foreign governments.
The current stalemate grew out of the failure to hold elections in December 2021, and the refusal of Prime Minister Abdel-Hamid Dbaiba, who is leading the transitional government, to step down. In response, the country’s eastern-based Parliament appointed a rival Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha, who has for months sought to install his government in Tripoli.