(Bloomberg) — Key officials at Libya’s election commission resigned saying the country is unable to hold the landmark vote as scheduled on Dec. 24, Fawasel Media reported, citing the head of the organization.
The stepping down of the board of directors was announced by commission chief Emad al-Sayeh. It came after the operations of auxiliary election committees were suspended on Tuesday in a further sign the vote was unlikely to proceed as planned.
Libya’s parliament has yet to make an official announcement and the election commission hasn’t released a final list of candidates. Among those who registered to run are a son of Libya’s former autocratic leader Moammar Al Qaddafi, eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar and Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, the prime minister of the unity government.
The election was a key step following long-running United Nations-brokered talks aimed at ending a decade of conflict that ravaged the North African OPEC nation and battered its economy.
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