The Chairman of Libya’s High Council of State and the Speaker of the House of Representatives agreed Wednesday to continue consultations on the country’s political crisis. Mohamed Takala and Aguila Saleh met in the Egyptian capital Cairo, according to a statement from the High Council of State’s media office. On June 3, it was announced that the committee members had approved laws that would pave the way for elections in Libya. On June 9, a statement was issued by the committee for determining election laws in Libya saying the draft election laws had been unanimously approved by the members, declared as final, and that future elections would be conducted in accordance with these laws. The High Council of State had announced that the election laws approved by the committee had been submitted to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily.

Source: Libya Today November 09, 2023 16:52 UTC