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THE SON of longtime Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi will run for the presidency, he announced yesterday.
Seif al-Islam registered to stand in Sabha, 400 miles south of Tripoli.
Once his father’s heir apparent, he was seized by rebels in 2011 after Nato intervention assisted a jihadist insurgency to overthrow the government, and he spent over five years behind bars.
He is still wanted by the International Criminal Court, accused of having authorised attacks on civilians during the early days of the uprising.
Libya has been at war ever since Britain, France and the United States toppled Col Gadaffi and has become a centre of human trafficking and the slave trade.
French President Emmanuel Macron hosted a summit in Paris last Friday supposedly aimed at gaining agreement from different factions to respect the results of elections planned for December 24, but his demand that foreign countries withdraw troops was dismissed by Turkey, which said its military intervention had been key to preventing France-backed rebel general Khalifa Haftar from seizing power from the UN-recognised government.
