Health Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU) Ali Al-Zanati resigned on Thursday.
Al-Zanati announced his resignation via a recorded video, in which he cited the end of the government’s legal mandate, as per UN peace plan, as the reason for his decision.
“It is difficult for me to continue as health minister in the Government of National Unity, whose mandate was expired according to the Geneva political agreement and the decision of the legislative authority,” Al-Zanati said in the video with the picture of Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), appearing behind him.
Al-Zanati’s resignation comes just two days after GNU’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh reinstated him to his post in the wake of court ruling that cleared him from financial misconduct charges.
The decision to reinstate Al-Zanati was announced by Dbeibeh’s own media office, which reported that the two met last Tuesday with the premier urging the former minister to work “seriously and sincerely in order to organize the health sector, which needs exceptional efforts”.
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