A second attempt to organise voting for a constituent assembly in a mainly
Tuareg region of southwestern
Libya and a
jihadist bastion in the
east failed Wednesday in the face of persistent insecurity. The electoral commission said it would **t make a third attempt to organise polling in the two areas and parliament would have to decide what to do about the resulting 11 vacant seats in the 60-seat assembly. In the vast Ubari region, deep in the Sahara south of the capital, gunmen attacked polling stations and forced their closure, the commission said. "Voting did **t take place in 59 polling stations, including 13 in Derna and 39 in Ubari," commission member Khaled al-Saheli told a news conference.
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