The House of Representatives (HoR) voted by a majority to amend the age of candidacy for the presidency to a minimum of 35 years of age, in place of the age of 40 years previously applicable.

Several House of Representatives (HoR) said they found it strange that the international community was silent toward the discovery of mass graves in Tarhouna, where just recently five new graves had been unearthed with 25 bodies inside, thus bringing the number of bodies to 220.

In a letter yesterday, the High State Council (HSC) called on Libya’s High National Elections Commission (HNEC) to cease working with the presidential and parliamentary election laws presented to it by the House of Representatives (HoR).

In its session today, Libya’s parliament, the House of Representatives (HoR), passed a law granting every Libyan family a LD 50,000 allowance. The Family Allowance is a political reaction by the HoR to Prime Minister Aldabaiba’s Marriage Allowance and Youth Grants/loans.

Libya’s High National Elections Commission (HNEC) announced today that it had officially received a copy of the parliamentary election law (Law No. 2 of 2021) from parliament (the House of Representatives – HoR).

Libya has faced a bumpy road towards obtaining a stable government, despite establishing a ceasefire in October 2020 which precipitated a unity agreement and slated elections for 24 December 2021.

High Council of State yesterday announced its rejection of the legislative election law approved by the House of Representatives.

Libya’s legislative elections have been postponed until January, the country’s eastern-based parliament said on Tuesday, instead of being held in December as planned.

Parliamentary and presidential votes were due at the end of the year, but there are fears the interim government hopes to stay in power.

Forty-eight members of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) issued a statement Tuesday denying remarks by Russia’s foreign minister that Russian intervention in Libya came at the request of the HoR.