ENTEBBE: President Museveni has urged the Libyan authorities to hold elections so as to legitimize their leadership.
During a meeting with Abdullah Al-Lafi, the Vice-President of the Libyan Presidential Council and other members at State House Entebbe on Thursday, Mr Museveni said the country has been messed up by foreigners and it’s time for the local people to take it back.
“Libya has its owners who should get a chance to make their own mistakes through elections instead of imposing the mistakes of foreigners on them,” the President said.
“It can’t be difficult to organize elections. Libya has been messed up by outsiders taking advantage of Libyans who were ideologically not well prepared. Let the people now make their choices whether good or bad, it will be their responsibility after all,” he added.
Mr Museveni urged Libyan leaders to spend more time winning over the Libyan people.
“Elections are fair and strategic in terms of encouraging people to make peace rather than war and everyone should participate without conditions. Getting foreigners to fight our wars is plundering Africa,” he added.
The Government of National Unity is a provisional government for Libya formed on 10 March 2021 to unify the rival Government of National Accord based in Tripoli and the Second Al-Thani Cabinet based in Tobruk.
Registration of candidates for Libya’s elections will open this month, the High National Election Commission has said ahead of the landmark vote scheduled for December.
The vote is a key step in a United Nations-backed process to end a decade of violence by creating a new political leadership whose legitimacy is widely accepted.