The Libyan Supreme Electoral Commission rejected the application of Gaddafi's son to participate in the presidential elections Gaddafi Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and rejected his application. This was reported by RIA Novosti.
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The electoral committee referred to the “undermining of stability” and indicated that they had rejected the candidacy of the dictator's son due to the closure of a number of departments of the commission. The CEC later deleted the post from its Facebook page. The recording disappeared less than ten minutes after publication.
Earlier it became known that the son of the former Libyan leader wanted to lead the country. He submitted the document to the regional election commission in the city of Sebha in southern Libya.
Seif al-Islam Gaddafi was born in 1972. He studied in Switzerland and the UK, where he graduated from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During his father's reign, he was involved in Libya's relations with Western countries. After the overthrow of his father, he led the resistance for a short time, but at the end of 2011 he was captured and brought to trial. In 2017, he was released thanks to the amnesty proclaimed by the Libyan government.
In 2018, he participated in the presidential elections, disrupted due to the onset of the offensive by the troops of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar on the Libyan capital. According to Bloomberg, Seif al-Islam allegedly repeatedly flew to Moscow for financial and diplomatic support. This information was not confirmed in Russia.