Libya’s House of Representatives kicked off on Tuesday another session to discuss the budget bill and the presidential election bill, after yesterday’s session was suspended.
Libya’s House of Representatives has an “alternative plan” if the country fails to hold the presidential and parliamentary elections on December 24, House Speaker Aguila Saleh told the press on Saturday.
Aguila Saleh, Speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives, indicated on Monday that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will not be legally allowed to run for president in the upcoming December elections due to the arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Today, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio is visiting Benghazi and Cyrenaica to meet a number of effective Libyan officials and discuss the Libyan crisis.
A new, parallel government could emerge in the east of Libya if the upcoming general elections in December were to be delayed, warned Aguila Saleh, speaker of the House of Representatives.
Aguila Saleh, the Speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives, said on Wednesday that he doesn’t accept the “presence of any foreign military powers or bases in Libya”, calling the security deal signed between Turkey and the former Libyan government “unconstitutional” and “null”.
Aguila Saleh, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Khaled Mazen, the Interior Minister, met on Tuesday in Tobruk to discuss security arrangements for the elections in December.
Aguila Saleh, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, said the government’s budget proposal will not be presented to the House in today’s session.