\n Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, registered Sunday to run in the country's December presidential polls, the electoral commission said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Seif al-Islam Kadhafi submitted... his candidacy for the presidential election to the High National Electoral Commission office in the (southern) city of Sebha,\" a statement by the commission said.\n<\/p>\n
\n It said he had completed \"all the required legal conditions\" and that he was also issued with a voter registration card for the Sebha district.\n<\/p>\n
\n Libya's first ever direct presidential poll, with a first round on December 24, is the climax of a process launched last year by the United Nations to draw a line under years of violence since the revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011.\n<\/p>\n
\n Libya opened registration for candidates on Monday.\n<\/p>\n
\n In July, Seif al-Islam, 49, emerged from years in the shadows and told The New York Times he was planning a political comeback.\n<\/p>\n
\n In a rare interview, he said he wanted to \"restore the lost unity\" of Libya after a decade of chaos and did not exclude standing for the presidency.\n<\/p>\n
\n The dictator's erstwhile heir apparent is wanted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC).\n<\/p>\n
\n Until the interview, Seif al-Islam had not been seen or heard from since June 2014, when he appeared via video link from Zintan, in the west of the country, during his trial by a Tripoli court.\n<\/p>\n
\n rb\/fka\/lg\/hkb\n<\/p>\n
\n THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, registered Sunday to run in the country's December presidential polls, the electoral commission said. \"Seif al-Islam Kadhafi submitted... his candidacy for the presidential election to the High National Electoral Commission office in the (southern) city of Sebha,\" a statement by the commission said. It said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-84325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-feed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n