{"id":31978,"date":"2019-02-05T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31978"},"modified":"2019-02-05T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:23:00","slug":"lack-of-funding-may-prevent-over-half-of-libyas-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31978","title":{"rendered":"Lack of funding may prevent over half of Libya\u2019s local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1447656\/middle-east\" readability=\"61\">\n<p>\nTRIPOLI:\u00a0At least 69 municipal councils out of 120 in Libya may not hold elections in March due to a lack of funding by the UN-backed government, the head of the elections committee said.<\/p>\n<p>\nLibyan authorities allowed municipal elections in 2013 in a bid to end a decades-long legacy of centralization of administration and help communities manage their local affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the degradation of security conditions after the toppling of long-ruling Muammar Qaddafi and irregular funding hindered the process.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/userimages\/17\/untitled-1_copy_89.png\" width=\"250\">Holding elections to renew the municipal councils requires at least 50 million Libyan dinars ($36 million), Salem Bentahia, head of the Central Committee for Municipal Councils Elections told Reuters in an interview. For now, the committee has only received 30 percent of that budget, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\nWithout government funds the committee is unable to launch awareness-raising programs on the importance of municipal elections, Bentahia said.<\/p>\n<p>\nOfficials at the internationally recognized government in Tripoli were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\nConstituency registration has been reopened with more than 800,000 voters on the list including 504,136 women, according to official figures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPOLI:\u00a0At least 69 municipal councils out of 120 in Libya may not hold elections in March due to a lack of funding by the UN-backed government, the head of the elections committee said. Libyan authorities allowed municipal elections in 2013 in a bid to end a decades-long legacy of centralization of administration and help communities&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}