Libya’s House of Representatives on Monday voted unanimously to approve a proposal for holding the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections within 14 months.
Abdulla al-Lafi, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Council, met on Sunday in with Aguila Saleh, the Speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives, to discuss the political roadmap ahead of the elections.
Muhammad Al-Abani, a member of parliament, said that replacing the Government of National Unity has become a decision of at the hands of the House of Representatives since its session last week.
Libya’s House of Representatives will review the candidacy files of those who were nominated to lead a new interim government, which would replace the government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, a member of parliament revealed on Tuesday.
Libya’s political and military parties agree with the parliament’s decision to form a new interim government, which would replace the government of Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Libyan political activist said on Monday.
The Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) Aqila Saleh said Tuesday that the HoR started to accept candidates’ paperwork for the position of the Prime Minister and the selection of the winning name to replace the current PM, Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, will take place on February 08.
Mabrouk al-Kabeer, a member of parliament, accused the government, led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, of exploiting the needs of Libyan people for the sake of promoting the premier’s own political campaign.
43 members of the Constitution Drafting Assembly released on Wednesday a joint statement in which they rejected a proposal of Parliament Speaker, Aguila Saleh, to form a committee to work on another draft for the constitution.