FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “Libya Elections: Was Paris summit a ‘missed opportunity’ to tackle core issues? • FRANCE 24” – below is their description.
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, the son of late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, appeared for nearly the first time in a decade to register as a presidential candidate for a December vote planned to help end the years of chaos since his father was toppled. According to Emadeddin Badi, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, his candidacy is simply “another opportunistic moment for Saif” at a time where the Libyan political roadmap is not being respected in the lead-up to elections. Prior to the December 24th #elections, #Libya was supposed to achieve the following objectives: military unification, unifying the judiciary, the departure of foreign mercenaries and establishing the legal framework for elections. These objectives have yet to be fully met, explains Mr. Badi. And so “today we experienced, at least partly, the cost of that, in that Saif effectively is allowed to run.”
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In This Story: Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest.
The sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over three million of Libya’s seven million people. The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya.
Libya became independent as a kingdom in 1951. A military coup in 1969 overthrew King Idris I. Parts of Libya are currently split between rival Tobruk and Tripoli-based governments, as well as various tribal and Islamist militias.
Libya is a member of the United Nations (since 1955), the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab League, the OIC and OPEC. The country’s official religion is Islam, with 96.6% of the Libyan population being Sunni Muslims.
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Voting is a method for a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, in order to make a collective decision or express an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting. Residents of a place represented by an elected official are called “constituents”, and those constituents who cast a ballot for their chosen candidate are called “voters”. There are different systems for collecting votes, but while many of the systems used in decision-making can also be used as electoral systems, any which cater for proportional representation can only be used in elections.
In smaller organizations, voting can occur in different ways. Formally via ballot to elect others for example within a workplace, to elect members of political associations or to choose roles for others. Informally voting could occur as a spoken agreement or as a verbal gesture like a raised hand or electronically.
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