The highest representatives of Libya’s three major council bodies could meet next January 11 in the city-oais of Ghadames to try to unblock the electoral paralysis that the country is going through, according to sources of the official Libyan news agency LANA.
The president of the Presidential Council of Libya, Mohamed Menfi, the president of the House of Representatives of the east of the country, Aguila Salé, and the president of the High Council of State, Jalid al Mishri, would be willing to meet next January 11 in this locality to try to bring positions closer and resolve once and for all a constitutional basis to serve as a pillar for the holding of the postponed elections, It remains to be seen if a previous meeting between Salé and al Mishri, which would take place in Cairo (Egypt) in «a few days», according to sources of the Egyptian daily ‘Youm 7’.
In any case this initiative, in coordination with the UN special envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, intends to restore communication between the three consultative bodies of the country after the breakdown of their communications at the beginning of the month.
The High Council of State and the House of Representatives suspended the work of their joint committees after the former body repealed the law to establish a constitutional court in the eastern city of Benghazi, home to a rival administration to the current internationally recognized government in the capital, Tripoli.
The latest political crisis finally erupted in March this year following the decision of the Eastern House to appoint Fazi Bashaga as prime minister by terminating the mandate of the unity prime minister, Abdulhamid Dbeibé.
The latter rejected the decision and has opted to remain in office until the holding of elections that have never come to an end, amid years of economic crisis and violence that ended in the civil war that began more than ten years ago with the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, lynched and shot dead in Sirte in 2011.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
