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| Will Saif Al-Islam Run For President? |
| 2021-06-29 |
| [LIBYAREVIEW] Saif al-Islam Qadaffy, son of the late Libyan leader Muammer Qadaffy, has not been seen in public since he was released from house arrest in 2017. But now he is allegedly considering a race for the presidency, in the war-torn North African country, where the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... and several countries are pressing for elections in December, according to a report published by the voanews.com The prospect of Saif coming to the polls is troubling Western diplomats and international democracy advisers, who say Libya’s turbulent grinding of the peace processor is big enough to get away without the involvement of Qadaffy’s son, a highly polarizing figure. "What I’ve heard is that it’s more vindictive than reconciliation," says Mary Fitzgerald, a researcher and associate fellow at King’s College London’s International Center for the Study of Radicalization. Fitzgerald, a former Irish Times newspaper news hound covered the 2011 Libyan civil war that ended the rule of Muammer Qadaffy. Saif, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war-crime charges, is allegedly negotiating through intermediaries with the Western media. The middlemen say a major US newspaper has conducted a formal interview with them, which is to be published next month. "It is still unclear whether he is actually putting himself out there as a candidate. I will believe it only when I actually hear him or see him make the pitch in the video," Claudia Gazzini of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank, told VOA. Hafed al-Ghawel, a Libyan-American and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Neitz School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, says he doesn’t think Saif has made up his mind. "But if he does, I think he’ll have significant support," he said. Observers say Saif’s candidacy will prove popular in the country’s south, and among Qadaffy’s former loyalists — and he may be able to persuade many ordinary Libyans, tired of a decade of conflict, that he is the best bet for a stable future, observers say. Related: Saif al-Islam Qadaffy: 2020-06-12 It’s time for Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi to take charge in Libya: official Saif al-Islam Qadaffy: 2019-11-21 Libya's Interior Minister: Russians arrested in Tripoli linked to Wagner Group Saif al-Islam Qadaffy: 2019-11-07 ICC Prosecutor renews call for surrendering Saif Gaddafi and Mahmoud Al-Werfalli |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Miss me yet? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-29 10:18 |
| #1 Prior to the Arab Spring, with his father's approval Saif was involved in a series of negotiations with Libyan Islamist elements, many of whom were resident in Egypt. He was then considered the heir apparent and the sentient answer to Libya's political problems. Today, he would be the Islamists formidable foe (if he is still alive). |
| Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-06-29 09:50 |