The Municipal Council Sirte announced on Friday its support for Fathi Bashagha who was named as a Libya’s new interim prime minister by the House of Representatives.
Khaled Al-Mishri, chairman of the High Council of State, on Friday spoke on the phone with Richard Norland, the U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya, to discuss recent political developments in Libya.
The UN chief is “following closely” the latest political crisis unfolding in Libya following the parliament’s decision to name a new prime minister, which which threatens to return the country to a stand-off position between two rival authorities.
Journalists and employees of Libyan News Agency (LANA) rejected the decision of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh to appoint a new chairman of the agency’s board of directors.
Saleh Jaouda, a member of Libya’s High Council of State (HCS), has criticized the attempts of the House of Representative to form a new interim government; something which he views as a threat to the country’s future.
A delegation of the Turkish Parliament is preparing to travel to Libya to hold a series of meetings with officials in Tripoli, Misurata and Benghazi, Turkish newspaper Zaman reports.
The Constituent Assembly has called on all national parties to enable the Libyan people to vote on the new constitution which the country’s House of Representative and High Council of State are working to produce.