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· A candidacy process would open Tuesday (tomorrow) for key institutional appointments to the Libyan transition government, according to representatives from rival Libyan camps
· The positions, which are being discussed, included the heads of the central bank, electoral commission, anti-corruption commission, supreme court and administrative control authority as well as the attorney general
· The parties also agreed to form working groups to deal with the candidacy process for these posts, says the joint communiqué issued
· Upon finalizing the names candidacies will be presented to representatives of the two sides
A candidacy process would open Tuesday (tomorrow) for key institutional appointments to the Libyan transition government, according to representatives from rival Libyan camps. These hopeful signals are coming after a new round of talks in Morocco for finding lasting solutions to the decade lasting conflicts that plagued the North African country. It is reported that the process for selecting the candidates would run till February 2. Several strategic posts will be filled up to facilitate zeroing in an interim executive body set to be elected next week in Geneva.
Oil-rich Libya has been ravaged by the civil war that ripped apart the country taking the development process in the reverse. The civil disturbances that kicked off in 2011 have now completed a decade.
A NATO-backed uprising that ousted long-time dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011 was the trigger. Two powerful groups have emerged since then: the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) based in the capital Tripoli and a House of Representatives, which does not recognize the Tripoli administration headquartered in the east of the country. A sort of peace is prevailing in the country, while Khalifa Haftar, head of the House of Representatives is threatening to resume fighting. Talks were progressing in the Moroccan capital Rabat, to bring together representatives from the Tobruk-based House of Representatives and the Tripoli-based High Council of State, which advises the GNA.
The positions, which are being discussed, included the heads of the central bank, electoral commission, anti-corruption commission, supreme court and administrative control authority as well as the attorney general. The parties also agreed to form working groups to deal with the candidacy process for these posts, says the joint communiqué issued. Upon finalizing the names candidacies will be presented to representatives of the two sides.
