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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
The United Nations Security Council convened last week to reassess Libya’s way forward following a long-anticipated, yet ultimately disrupted elections process. Few official statements about the other foundational elements of a democracy are so loudly and consistently the foremost item on the agenda. Still, and time and again, the UN and international actors continue to press nationwide elections as a kind of first-aid to resolve the country’s deep-seated dysfunction. The next phantom date proposed by the UN envoy is June of this year – only five months away. Now, in the purgatory between the …