CAIRO - 7 March 2020: Libya’s Prime Minister-designate of the new Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdel Hamid Al-Dabaiba, handed over the recent formation of the new government to the Presidency of the Libyan Parliament. The Media Office of the Libyan Unity Government said that Dabaiba had submitted the ministerial formation per the road map and the procedures specified in the political agreement before holding the confidence-granting session scheduled for next Monday in Sirte. The Libyan Parliament announced that the current prime minister had finalized the proposed names of his government members and submitted them to Speaker of Parliament Aquila Saleh. For his part, Minister of the Interior of the Interim Libyan Government, Ibrahim Bouchnaf, assigned both the Central Support Services and the Criminal Investigation Department to secure the confidence-granting session. The report raised a state of confusion in the Libyan political scene, amid calls to postpone the session of granting confidence to the recent government until investigations are concluded.

Source: Libya Today March 07, 2021 10:52 UTC