The Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Aqila Saleh said he was frustrated that elections weren’t held on December 24, 2021 because of the failure of the authorities entrusted with the process to pave the way and find a suitable environment for national reconciliation.
Libyans on Thursday mark 11 years since the revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, but the democracy many hoped for seems as elusive as ever, and many fear a return to conflict.
The Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) Speaker, Aqila Saleh, assured the United Nations Secretary-General’s Adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, that the solution to the Libyan crisis must be “Libyan-Libyan” without foreign interference.
On the eve of the 11th anniversary of the 17 February 2011 revolution that ended the 42-year Qaddafi regime, Libya is still seeking what now seems an unattainable political stability.
Some 54 members of Libya’s State Council yesterday rejected the eastern- based parliament in Tobruk’s decision to withdraw confidence from the government and described it as a violation of the Constitutional Declaration and the Political Agreement.
Libya’s president of the High Council of State said in a statement early on Wednesday that the Libyan parliament’s assigning a prime minister before holding an official session of the High Council is an “improper measure and doesn’t help in building confidence between the two councils”.
The official spokesman for the unity government, Mohammed Hammouda, stressed that the competence of the House of Representatives, according to the road map, was determined only in granting confidence to the ministerial formation submitted by the Prime Minister-designate from the political dialogue forum, and not by determining the president’s mandate, …
Commenting on the latest political developments in Libya, the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for stability, early elections, and critical decisions to be taken in a transparent manner. The Secretary General was speaking through his official Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric in New York yesterday.
Libyans found themselves with two prime ministers on Friday, raising the spectre of renewed violence in a country where elites have ignored the wishes of citizens to choose their leaders, analysts say.
Libya’s renegade General Khalifa Haftar has welcomed the east-based parliament’s decision to appoint Fathi Bashaga as the new prime minister.
