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Alaina
- . September 24, 2021
- . Update: February 18, 2020 7:51 am
Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the commander-in-chief of the Benghazi- based Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), which controls two-thirds of the country, temporarily resigned from his post from September 23 to December 24, 2021. The LAAF, formerly self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA), liberated the whole of Cyrenaica and the historical region of Fezzan from terrorism. These days they are fighting ferocious military operations against Chadian and Sudanese rebel groups after expelling the mercenaries who had fought alongside them in the offensive on Tripoli against the militias between 2019 and 2020.
Haftar’s move comes because of the elections scheduled for December 24 in Libya. Early this month, the President of Parliament Agila Salah presented a draft electoral law to the United Nations, which does not indicate any prohibition for military leaders from running for elections. The only request is that candidates are suspended from any public office three months before the day of the vote. And evidently for this reason that Haftar has announced the suspension of him right now.
A communiqué from the military command of Haftar also indicates the name of the substitute: the Commander General of the Libyan Armed Forces, Marshal of Staff Khalifa Aboul Qassem Haftar, assigns the functions of the post of Commander General to the Army General Abdel Razaq al-Nadouri for three months, starting on September 23, 2021, and ending on December 24, the Libyan army press office wrote on its Facebook page. The announcement includes some pom/”>Arab News Latest, Arab Politics News.
