- After Libya’s eastern-based parliament swore in a prime minister posing a challenge to interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, there has been wide spread concerns that the development could push Libya into further chaos.
- The infusion of a parallel government, it is feared will escalate political tensions endangering the long delayed elections.
After Libya’s eastern-based parliament swore in a prime minister posing a challenge to interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, there has been wide spread concerns that the development could push Libya into further chaos. The infusion of a parallel government, it is feared will escalate political tensions endangering the long delayed elections.
Dbeibah was appointed through the UN-led process in February 2021 with the mandate to lead the country until elections that were supposed to take place in December. The presidential and parliamentary elections, set for December 24 did not take place amid bitter disputes over their constitutional and legal footing, as well as the candidacies. This resulted in the efforts to replace him with Fathi Bashagha, a former interior minister backed by the eastern parliament.
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The late Libyan leader Gaddafi had scrapped Libya’s constitution after seizing power in a 1969 coup. After he was overthrown and killed in the NATO-backed uprising IN 2011, Libyan politicians agreed on a “constitutional declaration’ that is yet to take shape.
Stephanie Williams the UN envoy to Libya has offered to mediate between the political rivals. Williams, is UN chief Antonio Guterres’s special adviser on Libya. She has cautioned that forming rival administration and keeping Libya in a perpetual transition mode, will only deepen the crisis. She has proposed formation of a new joint committee to develop ‘consensual constitutional basis for nationwide polls. She disclosed that she had advised the eastern-based House of Representatives and the High Council of State (HCS), to form a joint committee. Once the committee is appointed, it would meet on March 15 under UN auspices for two weeks, to work towards a constitutional framework for elections.
Her offer was welcomed by HCS chief Khalid al-Mishri. However, the eastern-based parliament did refrained from an immediate public response.
