Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Gaddafi ya bayyana a ranar 22 ga Maris, 2018 a Tunis cewa zai tsaya takarar shugaban kasa a babban zaben Libya na gaba a karkashin Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya (PFLL). Ayman Abu Ras, mai magana da yawun jam'iyyar, ya ce Gaddafi yana son mayar da hankali kan shirin "gyare-gyare", wato ayyukan sake ginawa. A cikin wata hira ta Yuli 2021 tare da "The New York Times", hirarsa ta farko tare da kafofin watsa labarai na yamma a cikin shekaru goma, Gaddafi ya kai wa 'yan siyasar Libya hari saboda yadda suke mulki tun bayan Yaƙin Libiya na Farko na 2011
, wanda ya bayyana su a matsayin "sun yi wa kasar fyade". Gaddafi ya nuna cewa yana takarar shugaban kasa. Da yake tsokaci game da rashin kasancewarsa na tsawon shekaru daga rayuwar jama'a, ya ce "Kuna buƙatar dawowa a hankali, a hankali. Kamar wasan tsirara. Kana bukatar ka yi wasa da tunaninsu kaɗan".