War-torn Libya’s parliament rejects any “interference” in its work, its speaker told the UN envoy on Monday after she had offered to mediate in a push for elections.

A group of female candidates for the Libyan parliamentary elections has pushed for holding the elections, during a virtual meeting with the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Libya Stephanie Williams on Sunday.

The United Nations’ top official in conflict-scarred Libya offered Friday to mediate between political rivals in a renewed push for long-delayed elections, warning against “escalation” after a parallel government took office.

The United Nations Libya adviser Stephanie Williams said on Friday she had invited the parliament and High State Council to each nominate six members for a joint committee on Libya’s constitutional arrangements.

Military and security forces in the western region demanded that the Presidential Council dissolve the parliament in Tobruk, as the National Unity Government headed by Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh announced that it would continue its duties.

Libya’s parliament swore in a rival cabinet on Thursday in a bid to oust the unity government, a move that has raised fears of another major schism in the war-scarred country.

In the seventh go-around to form a unified Libyan government since the 2011 revolution, 92 House of Representatives members voted on Tuesday to grant confidence to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha.

The United Nations has voiced concern over reports that a vote in Libya’s parliament to install a new government, which risks triggering new fighting or a return to territorial division, “fell short of the expected standards”.

Members of the new Fathi Bashagha-led government will take the constitutional oath in a swearing-in ceremony at the House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk on Thursday at twelve noon. ‎The news was announced today by HoR Official Spokesperson Abdalla Belheeg.

A number of prominent leaders of the military operation Volcano of Rage (Burkan Al-Ghadab) as well as others from west-based areas called on the Presidential Council, which is the Commander in Chief of the Libyan Army, to dissolve parliament and hold elections, explaining in a statement late on Tuesday that …