By Jamal Adel.
Tripoli, 26 May 2014:
The Central Committee for Municipal Council Election (CCMCE) has announced the postponement of the Kufra municipal . . .[restrict]elections on its official Facebook page.
The elections, originally scheduled for 6 May 2014, had already been rescheduled for 24 May at the request of the Tebu committee of elders in Kufra.
“The elections will be delayed only until the fact-finding and evaluation committee finishes their investigation in the Tebu districts of Kufra,” Hussain Aya, head of the Tebu committee of elders in Kufra, told the Libya Herald.
The evaluation committee was formed last year as one of the conditions for Tebu demonstrators from Kufra and its surrounding area ending their blockade of Sarir power station. Protestors were demanding a sub-council be established for the Tebu districts in Kufra where, at present, all local council members are Arab. They also demanded that the nearby Tebu town of Rebyana be given a municipal council of its own. The committee was supposed to consider how authorities might address these demands.
The CCMCE’s goal in postponing the elections was to preserve the ceasefire, maintain peace and to reach consensus among Kufra residents.
The small town of Kufra has been the site of violent clashes between the ethnic minority Tebu and Arab majority Zuwai tribesman since the 2011 revolution. [/restrict]
