Independent Arabia: An uncertain future for the reconciliation conference after a wave of withdrawals that began with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s team

The Independent Arabia newspaper confirmed that the national reconciliation conference in Libya is at risk of failure before it is held on its scheduled date at the end of next April, after a wave of withdrawals that began with the team of Dr. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.

The newspaper explained, in its report, that the Presidential Council received a new blow that threatens its efforts to hold the reconciliation conference on time, after 11 members of the committee charged with supervising it announced the suspension of their participation due to their dissatisfaction with Abdullah Al-Lafi’s actions, which they considered “threaten the entire reconciliation project.”

The report stated that representatives of the Dignity Forces in Benghazi announced their withdrawal from participating in the National Reconciliation Forum at the beginning of this week, in response to Al-Manfi withdrawing the decision to include their dead and wounded in the Martyrs’ Authority, after he was exposed to a wave of protests inside Tripoli that reached the point of storming his headquarters.

The newspaper added that the current series of withdrawals from the reconciliation forum led by the Presidential Council was preceded a few months ago by the influential withdrawal of a major participant in it, which is the team representing the former regime headed by presidential candidate Dr. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, for various reasons, foremost of which is the failure to release some of the leaders who are still in prison.