Libya’s prime minister appointed by parliament last week said he will travel to Tripoli within days to take power. Internal airspace in Libya is still closed on the orders of outgoing Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibah who refuses to leave power. This decision was taken to prevent the Bachagha government from being sworn in before Parliament and to prevent it from returning to Tripoli.
Prime Minister Bachagha reiterated on Tuesday that his cabinet ” is not a parallel government but legal and for all Libyans “. He will take over by the force of law and not by the law of force “, he said before heading to Misrata by taking the road to reach Tripoli.
To the address of the international community, he promised to organize the elections claiming their support, as for the United Nations, he asked ” serious in handling the Libyan case.
In addition, Bachagha said he refused war and worked for the integration of militiamen into state institutions and ensured the withdrawal of arms while criticizing Dbeibah who “ squanders state money without a plan as if it came from his pocket and who, according to him, obstructed the holding of the elections.
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Misrata, the native city of the two Prime Ministers is more divided than ever.
The murder of a 22-year-old blogger at home in front of his mother and in a gruesome manner makes the situation even more tense. This young man had criticized outgoing Prime Minister Dbeibah before being killed by a militia loyal to the latter.
The Dbeibah government had allocated, last week, 100 million Libyan dinars to this militia called “common forces”, also responsible for the kidnapping of three ministers of the new government, last Thursday.
On Tuesday evening, a joint Egyptian-Saudi statement supported the Libyan parliament and called for support for its decisions because “ it is up to the legislature in Libya to give legality to the executive according to the press release published following the meeting between President al Sissi and King Bin Salman.
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