Libya’s alternative government opposed the initiative of the head of the UN mission in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, the Libyan Alwasat television channel reported on November 23.
Libya’s alternative government, appointed by the country’s parliament, issued a statement protesting the initiative by the head of the UN mission in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily.
According to the head of the alternative government of Libya, Osama Hammad, representatives of the Interim Government of National Unity and the Presidential Council of Libya should not participate in the negotiations, since they were formed as part of an agreement in Geneva, which has long been expired, which means that these structures have lost their legitimacy. At the same time, the Provisional Government of National Unity and the Presidential Council of Libya were invited to negotiate on holding elections in the country, but the legitimate government of Libya did not receive such an invitation.
According to Osama Hammad, the Interim Government of National Unity and the Libyan Presidential Council are the main culprits for disrupting the 2021 elections.
Osama Hammad directly accused the head of the UN mission in Libya of double standards and demanded that the UN Secretary-General conduct an investigation into Abdoulaye Bathily.
Recall that on November 23, 2023, the head of the UN mission in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathili, initiated a meeting of Libyan leaders to resolve controversial political issues regarding the holding of elections in the country. In his statement, Bathili called on the Libyan Presidential Council, the country’s Supreme Council of State, the Libyan Parliament, the Provisional Government of National Unity and the Libyan National Army to appoint representatives to participate in a preparatory meeting in which the parties They will discuss the date. , place and agenda of the meeting of its leaders.
We also remember that the last large-scale military operations in Libya ceased in the summer of 2020. On October 23, 2020, a ceasefire agreement was signed in Geneva. The agreement provided for the holding of unified elections in the country on December 24, 2021, the creation of a single interim government for this period, the creation of a unified army and the withdrawal of all foreign forces.
As a result of the Geneva forum, Abdel Hamid Dbeibah became head of Libya’s Interim Government of National Unity, but was unable to organize the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections, scheduled for December 24, 2021, and broke his promise not to run. to the presidency of Libya.
The Libyan Parliament withdrew the vote of confidence in the Dbeibah government and elected a new Prime Minister of Libya. But despite this and the expiration of powers and the expiration of the Geneva agreement, on the basis of which the Interim Government of National Unity of Libya was formed, Dbeibah refuses to leave the post of prime minister and, relying on loyal armed groups to him, continues to occupy the country’s capital, the city of Tripoli.
The presence of two parallel governments in the country has led Libya to a political impasse. To overcome the political deadlock and create a legislative framework for the elections, Libya’s Supreme State Council and the country’s parliament formed a joint “6+6” committee to agree on the legislative framework for the country’s upcoming elections.
The Joint Committee “6+6” developed the legislative framework for the elections and parliament approved the laws drafted by the committee. For its part, the Supreme State Council of Libya has not yet defined its position on the results of the work of the “6+6” joint committee.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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