The High National Election Commission is a body created in

Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...

for organising elections following the 2011

Libyan Civil War Demographics of Libya is the demography of Libya, specifically covering population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, and religious affiliations, as well as other aspects of the Libyan population. The ...

, starting in 2012.

Creation

The High National Election Commission (HNEC) was involved in organising the 2012 Libyan parliamentary election after the 2011 civil war that overthrew

Muammar Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by '' The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...

. The HNEC's chairman at the time was Nuri al-Abbar. The aim of the election was to replace the

National Transitional Council The National Transitional Council of Libya ( ar, المجلس الوطني الإنتقالي '), sometimes known as the Transitional National Council, was the ''de facto'' government of Libya for a period during and after the Libyan Civil War ...

created during the civil war by a representative

General National Congress The General National Congress or General National Council (GNC; ar, المؤتمر الوطني العام, Berber: Agraw Amuran Amatay) was the legislative authority of Libya for two years following the end of the First Libyan Civil War. It w ...

(GNC).

Leadership

From 2016 to early 2020, the HNEC Board members were Emad al-Shadly al-Sayah, Rabab Mohammed Halab, Abdelhakim al-Shaab Belkhair and Abubakr Ali Marda.

Transitional institutions

HNEC continued organising elections during the Libyan Crisis (2011–present). It organised the

2014 Libyan Constitutional Assembly election Constitutional Assembly elections took place in Libya on 20 February 2014. Nominations for elections to the constituent assembly started on 6 October 2013; registration for candidates to the assembly was over as of 11 November 2013. The assembly w ...

that elected a constituent assembly that wrote the 2017 draft Libyan constitution. HNEC organised the

2014 Libyan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Libya on 25 June 2014 for the House of Representatives. Whilst all candidates ran as independents, the elections saw nationalist and liberal factions win the majority of seats, with Islamist groups being red ...

that aimed to replace the GNC by a new parliament, the

House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...

(HoR). Municipal elections also were held in Libya in 2014. Under Article 157 of the 2017 draft constitution, the

Central Commission of Municipal Council Elections The Central Commission of Municipal Council Elections (CCMCE) is a Libyan electoral commission for organising municipal elections to replace councils elected in 2014. The intention was to hold a full set of municipal elections in 2018. Aims T ...

(CCMCE) was created to organise the following set of municipal elections, in coordination with HNEC, in 2018. The CCMCE started running the

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in early 2019.

References

External links

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