The head of the “High Council of State” in Libya, Khaled Al-Mashri, announced, on Monday, the details of a proposed roadmap that includes holding parliamentary elections on the specified date at the end of this year, and postponing the presidency until after the referendum on the constitution.

Al-Mishri said in a press conference held in a hotel in the capital, Tripoli, that “the road map that we propose provides for holding legislative elections on December 24, and this is possible.”

He added, “After these elections are held, the bodies that bore the burden of inconsistencies during the last period (the Tobruk House of Representatives and the Supreme Council of State) will emerge, and there will be a new elected parliament that is required to submit the draft constitution to a referendum within a year” from the date of his election.

Al-Mashri pointed out that the “High Council of State” believes that “holding the presidential elections in the current period will not generate stability.” “Elections are not an end in themselves, but the goal is to bring stability to the country.”

He explained, “We believe that in order to achieve stability, we must hold parliamentary elections first, and postpone the presidential elections until after the constitutional referendum.”

Al-Mashri considered that the proposal to hold legislative elections, according to the road map of the “Supreme Council of State,” “negates the character of clinging to our positions, unlike the proposal submitted by the House of Representatives.”

And he indicated that the House of Representatives presented a draft law for presidential elections only recently, “it may be interpreted that the latter does not want to leave the political scene.”

He added that some of the texts in this project “may also be interpreted that the Speaker of Parliament (Aqila Saleh) wants to run in these elections, and if he does not win, he will return to his position.”

Al-Mashri stressed, in the press conference, the desire of the “Supreme Council of State” to agree with the House of Representatives, saying: “Our hands are stretched out for consensus. What we presented (the road map) is not a law, but a proposal or a bill to be agreed upon with the House of Representatives; Because some media said it was a law.”

He stressed the Supreme Council’s rejection of the draft law issued by the House of Representatives for the presidential elections, stressing that the latter “does not have the authority to issue a law alone; He has the right to publicize or publish the law, but he does not have the right to issue it alone.”

He explained that the stages of issuing laws in Libya, whether electoral or non-electoral, according to the Constitutional Declaration and the Political Agreement (signed in the Moroccan city of Skhirat in 2015), stipulates “the consensus between the two houses (the House of Representatives of Tobruk and the Supreme Council of State) regarding the law, then its issuance by the House of Representatives. “.

And he continued: “If the House of Representatives or the members of the House of Representatives who passed the law, including their president, insist on the law or insist that elections for the legislative authority not be held; This is considered a clear obstruction of the elections, and it has no other interpretation, and this is unacceptable and unacceptable.”

Al-Mashri pointed out that “all the hopes of the Libyan people depend on the possibility of holding the proposed elections on their scheduled date on December 24,” and “the Supreme Council considers that this date is appropriate and possible, especially with regard to the legislative elections.”

On March 16, an elected transitional authority, comprising a unity government and a presidential council, assumed its duties to lead Libya to the elections scheduled for the end of the year.

Yesterday, the Libyan Supreme Council of State announced that it had approved a draft constitutional rule for holding the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, in the event that it was not possible to organize a popular referendum on a draft constitution for the country.

The council’s spokesman, Mohamed Abdel Nasser, said on his Twitter account that the council had approved “accepting the constitutional rule on which presidential and parliamentary elections are held.”

Nasser stressed that “the original is the referendum on the constitution, and that the (Council) accepts the constitutional rule in the event that the referendum is not possible.”

Al-Nasser stated that the parliament approved “the two draft laws for the election of the president (for the country) and the election of the National Assembly, which consists of two chambers, namely the deputies and the sheikhs.”

He added that the parliament will refer “the draft constitutional rule, the draft law for the election of the president and the draft law for the election of the National Assembly to the House of Representatives for consideration of consensus on it.”

The three projects approved by the Supreme Council of State were drafted by a committee affiliated with it, without details.

On September 9, the head of the Supreme Council of State, Khaled Al-Mashri, said that the House of Representatives has the right to issue laws “provided that it consults with us in accordance with the provisions of the political agreement” of 2015.

Until today, the Libyan parties have not been able to agree on a constitutional basis regulating the conduct of the elections scheduled for December 24 next.

On September 8, the House of Representatives referred the Presidential Election Law to the United Nations Special Envoy for Libya, Jan Kubis, which includes 77 articles clarifying the president’s terms of reference and the conditions and procedures for candidacy and voting.

Article 12 of the law sparked widespread controversy. Because it grants the person wishing to run, whether civilian or military, the right to run without resigning from his job, and allows him to return to his position if he loses, which critics considered as a prelude to the candidacy of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar on the twenty-fourth of next December.