The House of Representatives announced early Thursday morning the outcomes of a meeting held by some of its members and members of the State Council in Tunisia to discuss the “political deadlock” in Libya. They reached a meeting record that includes “forming a new national government that will work on accomplishing the electoral entitlement as stipulated in Articles (90, 86) of the electoral laws.”
The meeting, which involved 120 members from both councils, emphasized the necessity of “selecting the new Prime Minister through a transparent and fair mechanism based on the roadmap presented by the (6+6) committee, in consensus between the two councils and under the auspices of the UN mission.” The members also stressed the importance of “establishing controls and legislation binding for the upcoming government to ensure the fight against centralization, support local units, and direct allocations to municipalities and provinces.”
The House of Representatives published a group photo of the council members who participated in the meeting, without detailing their names.
The meeting renewed the commitment to the outcomes of the (6+6) committee and the electoral laws No. 28, 27 for the year 2023, produced by the (6+6) committee and issued by the House of Representatives. It urged the High National Elections Commission to start implementing the electoral laws and to announce the date of the elections.
Economically, the members pointed to the “seriousness of the findings in the Central Bank’s report regarding the inflation in spending on subsidies, expenditures, and financing of unknown sources, and the necessity of forming an investigative committee into this matter.”
The statement concluded with the announcement of “forming a follow-up committee from members of both councils that will handle local and international communication to implement the agreed outcomes, with the committee to present its first report to the members of both councils within a month, and its assignment to prepare for the second expanded meeting of the council members.”
The meeting in Tunisia took place despite what local and Arab media described as “difficulties and pressures” that nearly prevented it from happening. On Wednesday, a member of the House of Representatives, Ali Abu Zriba, described the meeting in Tunisia as “excellent” in a phone statement to “Alwasat Portal,” noting that the final statement would support the outcomes of the (6+6) committee and then proceed with nominations for the presidency of the unified government.
The meeting in Tunisia came amid the stagnation of the political process in Libya, a day after the members of the Security Council reaffirmed on Tuesday “their strong commitment to a comprehensive political process led and owned by the Libyans and facilitated by the United Nations, built on the updated electoral laws agreed upon by the (6+6) committee.”
