Moammar Gadhafi’s son announces candidacy for president of Libya

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he son and one- time inheritor apparent of late Libyan oppressor Moammar Gadhafi blazoned Sunday his training for the country’s presidential election coming month, Libya’s election agency said.

Seif al-Islam, who’s wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity related to the 2011 insurrection, submitted his training papers in the southern city of Sabha, 650 km (400 country miles) south of the capital of Tripoli, the High National Choices Commission said in a statement.

Gadhafi’s son was captured by fighters late in 2011, the time when a popular insurrection stumbled his father after further than 40 times in power.

Moammar Gadhafi was latterly killed amid the preceding fighting that would turn into a civil war.
In a videotape participated by an election functionary, Seif al-Islam addressed the camera, saying that God will decide the right path for the country’s future. He wore specs and a traditional Libyan mask and turban. It was the first time in times that Seif al-Islam appeared in public.

Seif al-Islam was released in June 2017 after further than five times of detention. In July he told The New York Times in an interview that he was considering a run for the country’s top office. His training is likely to stir contestation across the country.
Seif al-Islam is wanted by the ICC on charges of crimes against humanity allegedly committed in the first weeks of the 2011 insurrection.

Libya is set to hold presidential choices on Dec 24, after times ofUN-led attempts to marshal in a further popular future and bring the country’s war to an end. Following the defeat and payoff of Gadhafi, canvas-rich Libya spent utmost of the last decade spilt between rival governments — one grounded in the capital, Tripoli, and the other in the eastern part of the country.
The advertisement came after an transnational conference in Paris on Friday expressed support for holding “ free, fair, inclusive and believable presidential and administrative choices” on Dec 24.

The long- awaited vote still faces challenges, including undetermined issues over election laws and occasional dissension among fortified groups. Other obstacles include the deep rift that remains between the country’s east and west, split for times by the war, and the presence of thousands of foreign fighters and colors.
Gadhafi the oppressor had eight children, utmost of whom played significant places in his governance. His son Muatassim was killed at the same time Gadhafi was captured and taken.

Two other sons, Seif al-Arab and Khamis, were killed before in the insurrection. Another son, al-Saadi Gadhafi, was released in September after further than seven times of detention in the capital of Tripoli following his repatriation from neighbouring Niger.