In a statement to Al-Manassa, Nadia Omran, a member of the Constituent Assembly for Drafting the Constitution, affirmed that “Option Four” proposed by the Consultative Committee constitutes a clear and explicit violation of the Constitutional Declaration and its amendments.
Omran explained that this option involves creating a new political dialogue committee tasked with finalising electoral laws, the executive authority, and a permanent constitution, which represents a clear departure from the legal framework.
Omran based her position on Article (30) of the Constitutional Declaration issued in 2011, which explicitly states that the task of drafting the constitution is an exclusive mission for a body elected by the people. She also noted that the Seventh Amendment to the Constitutional Declaration, issued in 2014, came to reinforce this, granting the Assembly a unique authority that cannot be paralleled or superseded.
Omran stressed that any foundational text that does not stem from a direct popular mandate or is not submitted to a public referendum is considered null and void, which represents a violation of the Libyan people’s sovereignty as stipulated in Article 1. She concluded that creating any alternative entity to perform these tasks without an explicit constitutional amendment is an illegitimate parallel path that threatens the constitutional legitimacy of the entire political process.
