The statement said “differences persist on the measures governing the transitional period leading to elections”. Even before that, HoR elected Fathi Bashaga as new Prime Minister after stripping Dbeibeh of parliamentary confidence in September 2021. This brought back the divisions of 2014, as Libya today, like then, has two separate administrations. Since the 2011 war in Libya, not a single UN mediation initiative has had any plan B to solve any unanticipated shortcomings. It was repeated in the first major political agreement between different factions in the 2015 Libyan Political Agreement and, again, in the 2021 agreement described as a “historic moment” by the UN.

Source: Libya Today June 26, 2022 06:56 UTC