Elections to the Libyan Constitutional Assembly were held on February 20, 2014 . [1] Elections were called by decision of the General National Congress . In the election, 60 members of the Assembly will be elected out of 650 candidates, who will have to prepare a draft Constitution of the country within 120 days, which will determine the basic principles of governance, systems of government, the status of tribes, and the place of Sharia law. Then the document will be put to a referendum.
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Candidates for the Constitutional Assembly were nominated from October 6 [2] to November 11, 2013 . [3] The assembly will include 20 members from each of the three regions of Libya: Tripolitania , Cyrenaica and Fezzana . [2] It is expected that the commission will work on a draft constitution from March to July 2014, [4] which will then be put to a referendum.
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Campaign
Voter registration was carried out via SMS and lasted until January 1, 2014 . A total of 1,001,910 voters were registered [5] , three times less than in the elections to the interim parliament in 2012 , although 3.4 million people were entitled to vote in the country. The elections were boycotted by the Berbers and Tuba , although 14 Tubu people registered as candidates. [6]
Voting
One and a half thousand polling stations opened at 08:00 (11:00 Moscow time), the vote lasted until 19:00. Voting took place against a background of enhanced security measures. On the night before voting at five polling stations in the east of the country, in the city of Derna, located on the Mediterranean coast 150 km from Benghazi, explosive devices went off, but there were no casualties, however, the polls were seriously damaged. As the head of the election commission, Nuri al-Abbar, said: “five voting offices were attacked, so today they were not opened” [7] . As a voter from Benghazi says:
| We came here, remembering the martyrs who shed blood in the name of the ideals of the February 17 revolution. One of them is the creation of the rule of law, and today, thank God, we are starting the path to democracy and freedom. [eight] |
In some places where there were problems with the voting, re-elections will be held on February 26, 2014. [9]
Results
On February 26, results were published in 10 constituencies in which 39 seats of the Constitutional Assembly were distributed. [10] By March 2, 47 results were announced. [eleven]
Notes
- ↑ Elections of the Libyan Constitutional Assembly scheduled for February 20 // RIA Novosti. 01/30/2014
- ↑ 1 2 Constitutional assembly candidates being registered , Libya Herald (October 21, 2013). Date of treatment December 24, 2013.
- ↑ Registration closes for constitution committee committee candidates - 681 registered , Libya Herald (November 12, 2013). Date of treatment December 24, 2013.
- ↑ GNC votes to extend its life another year , Libya Herald (December 23, 2013). Date of treatment December 24, 2013.
- ↑ Over one million register for constitutional elections on final SMS registration day , Libya Herald (1 January 2014). Date of treatment January 1, 2014.
- ↑ Tebus announce boycott of Constitutional Committee elections; Tuareg split Libya Herald, February 17, 2014
- ↑ Bombers tried to disrupt the elections to the Constitutional Assembly of Libya - Rosbalt.ru
- ↑ Libya elects Constitutional Assembly | euronews, the world
- ↑ Election re-runs next Wednesday says Elabbar , Libya Herald (February 21, 2014). Date of treatment February 21, 2014.
- ↑ HNEC announces preliminary results for 39 Constitutional Committee seats , Libya Herald (February 26, 2014). Date of treatment February 26, 2014.
- ↑ HNEC announces results for Constitutional Committee elections , Libya Herald (March 2, 2014). Date of treatment March 3, 2014.