Libya`s Jibril sees elections within eight months

Dead Sea, Jordan (ANTARA News/Reuters) - Libyans should be allowed to vote within eight months to elect a national council that would draft a new constitution and form an interim government, Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said on Saturday.

For now, the priority was to remove weapons from the country`s streets and restore stability and order, Jibril said at the World Economic Forum in Jordan.

"The first election should take place within a period of eight months, maximum, to constitute a national congress of Libya, some sort of parliament," he said.

"This national congress would have two tasks -- draft a onstitution, on which we would have a referendum, and the second to form an interim government to last until the first presidential elections are held," said Jibril.
(Uu.H-AK)

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