On 4 January, columnist Anchal Vohra, wrote an article for Foreign Policy where she argues that in the absence of a constitution, Libya’s election - if it had gone ahead - would have been a ‘political bludgeon handed to one of the many rival claimants to power’. She writes that the three top candidates, Dabaiba, Haftar and Saif al-Islam, were banking on their challengers being dismissed to improve their chances, and when this didn’t happen the process broke down.
Read the article here.