On 26 October, Al Jazeera published an opinion article by Emadeddin Badi, titled ‘Saddam Haftar is eyeing the throne in Libya’. In his article, he argues that as the US is trying to broker a power-sharing arrangement between Tripoli and Benghazi, Saddam Haftar - the son of eastern commander Khalifa Haftar - is trying to position himself as the main contender for the presidency. “Saddam is counting on the Trump administration’s appetite for a Libyan deal, sharpened by Turkish and Emirati lobbying and by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rapport with Trump,” he writes.
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