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November 2, 1446 AH
August 15, 2024 AD
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Libya’s House of Representatives voted to withdraw its confidence in the National Accord Government led by Abdul Hamid Dabaiba and restore the Libyan Army’s top commander as president of the Security Council.
The recent measures taken by the House of Representatives constitute the withdrawal of recognition of the political agreement signed in Morocco in 2015 and the outcomes of the Political Dialogue Forum signed by the parties to the Libyan conflict in Geneva in 2021.
The House of Representatives voted unanimously to end the preliminary phase in a formal session today (Tuesday), House spokesman Abdullah Belhaq said in a statement after a meeting at its headquarters in the city of Benghazi.
Belhak said that until a unity government is elected, the House of Representatives considers the government of Osama Hamad to be the legitimate government.
At the same meeting, the Council also voted to designate House of Representatives Speaker Aguila Saleh as Supreme Commander of the Army, as specifically stated in the Constitutional Declaration and the House Decision.
However, Khalid Mishri, who declared himself Chairman of the Supreme State Council in the disputed elections, told Ajila Saleh that the House of Representatives’ decision to remove the Army’s Supreme Commander from the Presidential Council was “null and void” because it violated Article (12) of the additional provisions of the political agreement signed by General Skhirat.
At today’s meeting, Aguila Saleh stated that the preliminary phase of the Presidential Council and the Government of National Accord ended with the expiration of the stipulated terms, noting the need to reconsider the Geneva Agreement of the preliminary phase since it does not incorporate the Constitutional Declaration.
“The capital has fallen under the control of armed gangs,” Saleh told the meeting.
Saleh called for the formation of a unified authority capable of ending the country’s centralization by dividing it into provinces.
For his part, the outgoing President of the Supreme Council of State, Mohammad Takara, condemned the unilateral steps taken by the House of Representatives to break away from the Supreme Council of State and the “violation of its powers” stipulated in the political agreement.
He said, “According to the Geneva Agreement, which has gained international consensus, the executive branch is composed of the Presidential Council and the National Unity Government, and the highest commander of the army is the Presidential Council.”
He stressed that any change in the political situation should be addressed through appropriate, agreed mechanisms for all Libyans, the most important of which is the holding of elections.
Takara rejected quotas and regionalization of Libyans’ wealth, and he also rejected Aguila Saleh’s remarks on the principle of consolidation of regions, which were not approved by the Constitutional Declaration.
On February 5, 2021, the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum was held in Geneva by the United Nations and the parties to the Libyan conflict, with the Government of National Accord becoming the initial executive body.
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