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- Tension is brewing in Libya since the House of Representatives in Tobruk, eastern Libya, appointed former Interior Minister Fathi Başhağah as prime minister last month
Tension is brewing in Libya since the House of Representatives in Tobruk, eastern Libya, appointed former Interior Minister Fathi Başhağah as prime minister last month.
The House of Representatives in Tobruk, elected Başhağah as prime minister in a session held last month. Most pf the MPs from the west of the country were not present at the time of election. This gave Başhağah’s government a vote of confidence on March 1.
Abdelhamid Dbeibah, the prime minister of the national unity government, however, claimed that he was still in office and has accused the House of Representatives of deviating from the roadmap laid out in the Geneva agreement. Dbeibah said that he would handover the powers only to an elected government. But Başhağah said he would take up his duties in the capital Tripoli at the earliest opportunity.
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The tension has been increasing day by day, ever since the election of Bashagah. On March 10, a new conflict broke out in Tripoli. Some military formations supporting Başhağah came to the city of Homs, east of Tripoli. On the other hand, there was also military activity in the city of Terhune, the hometown of Khalifa Haftar, the head of the armed forces in the east of the country whose supporters are the majority.
Libyans, who lived in this scenario of two governments in the east and west of Libya in 2014-2020, are watching the developments with concern. They fear that such political fragmentation may lead to an armed conflict.
