Voters in the western Libyan City of Misrata are heading to the polls to elect Municipal Leaders.

Today’s vote in the war-torn country’s third-largest city and those planned across western and southern Libya could help pave the way for nationwide elections.

But the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord has accused renegade Military Commander Khalifa Haftar’s Forces of disrupting planned polls elsewhere.

Al Jazeera’s Malik Traina says some Libyans believe voting is the only solution to the conflict, which has lasted years, but Haftar is removing elected city officials and issuing military orders to appoint their replacements.