Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has spent past decade out of sight after his father was killed in 2011 uprising

The son of Libya’s late dictator Muammar Gaddafi registered on Sunday as a presidential candidate in December’s planned election, as disputes rage over the rules of a vote proposed as a way to end a decade of violence.

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, 49, appeared in social media photos in traditional brown robe and turban, and with a grey beard and glasses, signing documents at the election centre in the southern town of Sebha. An official confirmed he had registered.

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