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By Sami Zaptia. London, 18 December 2020: The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) has established its Legal Committee, which starts the countdown to Libya’s 24 December 2021 elections. The announcement was made by UNSMIL yesterday after the LPDF had held a virtual session during which it also discussed the necessary arrangements for holding the elections and the selection mechanism for Libya’s new government. The members of this committee will be formally announced in the coming days, UNSMIL said. Agreeing on the selection mechanism for choosing the next Libyan government UNSMIL repor...

By Sami Zaptia. London, 17 December 2020: Mohamed Bettamer, the head of Libya’s Civil Registry Authority (CRA), has called for Libya’s planned 2021 elections to be held after his authority had ‘‘cleaned’’ its database. Bettamer offered his advice during an interview on a Libyan satellite TV channel last Friday (11 December). The CRA is the entity that holds Libya’s database of births, deaths and marriages. Its database is used as the bases for issuing the country’s National ID Number which in turn enables Libyans to obtain a Libyan nationality, passport, ID card, driving lice...