TRIPOLI: Libya's military strongman Khalifa Haftar is polishing his political image ahead of elections, after a crippling rout on the battlefield and with his support waning at home and abroad, analysts say.Haftar's eastern-based forces battled for more than a year to seize the capital Tripoli in the west, but their defeat last June set the stage for.
Libya’s military leader Khalifa Haftar is polishing his political image ahead of elections, after a crippling rout on the battlefield and with his support waning at home and abroad, analysts say.
TRIPOLI: Libya’s military strongman Khalifa Haftar is polishing his political image ahead of elections, after a crippling rout on the battlefield and with his support waning at home and abroad, analysts say. Haftar’s eastern-based forces battled for more than a year to seize the capital Tripoli in the west, but their defeat last June set the stage for UN-backed peace talks, a
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Analysts say that Khalifa Haftar, the military commander of the Libyan rebellion, consolidated his political image before the election. He was defeated horribly on the battlefield before and gradually weakened domestic and foreign support.
Haftar’s eastern forces fought for more than a year to capture Tripoli, the capital of the west, but their failure in June last year was a UN-supported peace talks, a unified government, and a nationwide plan to be held in December The general election laid the foundation.
Miloud el-Hajj, a professor of international relations, said: “He hopes that the election will ensure his political victory after his military defeat.”