The son of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi said Thursday that his father would agree to internationally-supervised elections, provided they were fair elections. Speaking to Italian media, Said al-Islam said that the elections “could be held within three months. At the maximum by the end of the year, and the guarantee of transparency could be the presence of international observers.
“The important thing is that the election should be clean, that there should be no suspicion of vote-rigging,” he said, adding that “I have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of Libyans stands with my father and sees the rebels as fanatical Islamist fundamentalists, terrorists stirred up from abroad, mercenaries on the orders of (French President Nicolas) Sarkozy.”
“The important thing is that the election should be clean, that there should be no suspicion of vote-rigging,” he said, adding that “I have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of Libyans stands with my father and sees the rebels as fanatical Islamist fundamentalists, terrorists stirred up from abroad, mercenaries on the orders of (French President Nicolas) Sarkozy.”