Libya’s transitional Council of Ministers led by Abdelhamid Dbeibah suspends the implementation of an agreement with the United Nations on equality between men and women. A decision taken the day before International Women’s Rights Day at a government meeting last Sunday. A new government was sworn in before parliament last Thursday and its leader Fathi Bachagha is trying to oust the incumbent in Tripoli.
While Libya is going through a major institutional crisis, Prime Minister Dbeibah, deposed by Parliament, is multiplying initiatives allowing him to increase his popularity so that he can stay in power.
To young people, after having granted them a scholarship for marriage, he promises to distribute land, to give them access to loans for the purchase of apartments.
To the militias, the masters of the places on the ground in Tripoli, he allocated millions of Libyan dinars. Sums provided for in the budget that Parliament refused and which has been described as “the most expensive in the history of Libya”.
Everything seems to indicate that his latest decision is part of a desire to attract as many people as possible to his camp. According to several observers, he is seeking this time to win the favor of the fiercest Islamists.
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The suspension of the agreement with the United Nations on equality between men and women has been taken, according to the official press release. as a precaution against the conflict of some of its articles with the provisions of the Islamic sharia (law) “.
Yet Houriya Tourmal, the Minister of State for Women’s Affairs who has been widely criticized by the Islamists, made it clear last October when signing the agreement that: ” national law takes precedence in case of contradiction “.
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