There are other ways to achieve peaceful political change, and we will embrace them with no hesitation, indeed with enthusiasm.” Despite Salame’s possible encouragement of Plan B, it must overcome several obstacles. Final preparations for Plan B will take place during a planned Rome conference to be held in November. Plan B also neglects one of the most important issues facing Libya today: The lack of a constitution. Encouraging certain armed groups in Western Libya to take on the Madkhalis may become a necessary evil for the plan to succeed. As devised, Plan B would offer Libya a form of shallow democracy that would bring stability, but not necessarily freedoms.

Source: Libya Observer September 07, 2018 17:15 UTC