The High National Election Commission is a body created in

Libya Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...

for organising elections following the 2011 Libyan Civil War, starting in 2012.

Creation

The High National Election Commission (HNEC) was involved in organising the

2012 Libyan parliamentary election Elections for a General National Congress (GNC) were held in Libya on 7 July 2012, having been postponed from 19 June. They were the first elections since the Libyan Civil War (2011), overthrow and death of Muammar Gaddafi, death of longtime rul ...

after the 2011 civil war that overthrew

Muammar Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (20 October 2011) was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until Killing of Muammar Gaddafi, his assassination by Libyan Anti-Gaddafi ...

. 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 (NTC) was a transitional government established in the 2011 Libyan civil war. After rebel forces overthrew the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya of Muammar Gaddafi in August 2011, the NTC governed Libya for a further ...

created during the civil war by a representative

General National Congress The General National Congress or General National Council (GNC; ) was the Legislature, legislative authority of Libya for two years following the end of the First Libyan Civil War. It was elected by popular vote on 7 July 2012, and took power f ...

(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

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. 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 The 2017 draft Libyan constitution is a draft of a constitution for Libya prepared by the Constitution Drafting Assembly of 60 people elected from around Libya in the 2014 Libyan Constitutional Assembly election. Status: The new draft constitut ...

. 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 re ...

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

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

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(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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