Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi, registered Sunday to run in the country's December presidential polls, said the High National Elections Commission.

"Today, Sunday, November 14, 2021, candidate Saif al-Islam Muammar Gaddafi submitted his candidacy for the presidency of the Libyan state," the commission said in a statement.

"Candidate Saif al-Islam Gaddafi also received his electoral card from the electoral center in which he is registered," said the statement, adding that the center number is 21021 in south Libya's Sebha city.

Libya will hold general elections on December 24, as part of a roadmap adopted by the UN-sponsored Libyan Political Dialogue Forum. 

Photos and videos from the electoral commission showed Saif al-Islam Gaddafi registering his candidacy dressed in traditional robes and headdress.

Born in 1972, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is the second of Gaddafi's eight children, the eldest son of his second wife Safiya.

He was released from prison under an amnesty law in 2017 after being detained in the western city of Zintan since the fall of his father's regime in 2011.

(With input from Xinhua and AFP)