Local elections were held 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, Su ...

in 2014.

Background

The Libyan Central Commission of Municipal Council Elections, headed by Salem Bentahia , is responsible for elections for the 120 local councils that were created in 2013.

Election

The 2014 municipal elections were held at a cost of and were generally perceived as democratic. The councils resulting from the 2014 elections were seen by Libyans, , as "the most trustworthy and legitimate elected bodies" in Libya.

2016 removal of elected mayors

In late 2016, Major-General Abdul Razzaq Al-Nazhuri of the

Libyan National Army The Libyan National Army (LNA; ar, الجيش الوطني الليبي, ''al-jaysh al-waṭaniyy al-Lībii'') is a component of Libyan Armed Forces, Libya's military forces which were nominally a unified national force under the command of Fiel ...

(LNA) replaced several of the elected municipal mayors in eastern Libya with unelected people, mostly military. Altogether the LNA replaced nine elected councils, out of 27 in its area of control, with military administrators.

2018 delayed elections

In Zawiya,

Bani Walid Bani Walid (Anglicized: ; ar, بني وليد, Banī Walīd, Libyan pronunciation: ) is a city in Libya located in the Misrata District. Prior to 2007, it was the capital of Sof-Aljeen District. Bani Walid has an airport. Under the Libyan Ar ...

and Dirj, the local elections that were supposed to have been held in 2014 were held in 2018. The Bani Walid elections in 2014 had failed for "security reasons".

References

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