For those keeping up with the latest scheduled events in Libyan national elections and constitution writing, there has been yet another change to the timeline. February's amendment to the Constitutional Declaration kept the GNC in power beyond 7 February, under the condition that elections for a new legislature will be held in June if the special February Committee (a mix of GNC members and outside experts) determines that a new draft constitution will not be ready by July. The February Committee has just decided that June's potential elections would not not only be for a new Congress, but also for an elected president. The new president would select the prime minister, who in turn would select a new cabinet. This new government, the third interim government since the end of the 2011 Revolution, would last for no longer than 18 months.It is promising to see that the February Committee has already thought long and hard about carefully delineating powers between the President (head of state) and the Prime Minister, given that the lack of clear separation of powers in the current government has caused much deleterious political infighting between President Nuri Abu Sahmain and Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. It also remains to be seen what kind of effect the announcement that the third interim government will be a presidential rather than parliamentary system will have on the new constitution. More on this story is available here from Magharebia: "February Committee proposes new Libya legislature".
Possible Presidential Election?