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In Libya, protesters demanding greater autonomy for eastern Libya have ransacked the offices of Libya's electoral authority in Benghazi. Witnesses say about 300 people chanting pro-autonomy slogans took ballot boxes out of the building and burnt election papers in the street. Libya is to elect a new Parliament on Saturday in the first democratic polls since the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. Pro-autonomy leaders in eastern Libya have called for a boycott of the vote. They want eastern Libya to be given a larger share of seats in the new 200-member legislature which is tasked with drawing up a constitution. Libya's electoral law apportions 60 seats to eastern Libya and 102 to the west with 38 going to the rest of the country.
The Benghazi head of the High National Election Commission, Jamal Bukrin told newsmen that a group of people entered the commission's premises, ransacked the offices and destroyed what they found inside the building. The call to boycott Saturday's vote was made by a group that has proclaimed itself the authority of a semi-autonomous territory in Cyrenaica or eastern Libya.
The Benghazi head of the High National Election Commission, Jamal Bukrin told newsmen that a group of people entered the commission's premises, ransacked the offices and destroyed what they found inside the building. The call to boycott Saturday's vote was made by a group that has proclaimed itself the authority of a semi-autonomous territory in Cyrenaica or eastern Libya.
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