11 March 2024
Three key Libyan leaders said on Sunday that they had agreed on the “necessity” of forming a new unified government that would supervise long-delayed elections, Reuters has reported. A political process to resolve more than a decade of conflict in Libya has been stalled since an election scheduled for December 2021 collapsed amid disputes over the eligibility of the main candidates.
The leaders are president of the Presidential Council (PC), Mohamed Menfi; head of the High State Council (HSC), Mohamed Takala, who are both based in Tripoli; and Aguila Saleh, speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) in Benghazi.
In a joint statement, the three also called on the UN Mission in Libya and the international community to support their proposals. They met in Cairo at the invitation of Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and said that they had agreed to form a technical committee to look into “controversial” points.
“The measures that were agreed upon today, we believe, are a very important beginning,” Menfi told the media after the meeting. “They are results that live up to the ambition of Libyans to hold elections.”
Menfi came to power when GNU under Abdelhamid Al-Dbeibeh was installed…
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