A member of the Libyan Parliament announced that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aqila Saleh, and the Head of the State Council, Khaled Al-Mashri, will meet in Morocco as part of efforts to resolve the Libyan crisis.
Abdel Moneim Al-Arfi, a member of the Libyan House of Representatives, told Anadolu Agency, "Aqila Saleh arrived in Morocco to meet with the President of the State Council Al-Mashri to discuss several issues."

Al-Urfi explained that "among those matters is the issue of appointing people to sovereign positions by consensus between the two councils."

The parliamentarian revealed that Saleh and Al-Mashri "are different about that file, while the first sees the need for changing managers of administrative positions to include the position of Central Bank Governor Sadiq Al-Kabeer, the second insists on otherwise."

Neither Morocco nor the United Nations announced the meeting, but it comes as part of the efforts of the international organization that it launched in Geneva to launch the political dialogue forum that produced on February 5, 2021 the current authorities, namely the Government of National Unity and the current Presidential Council.

The forum, which includes a committee (13 + 13) formed by the House of Representatives and the State, had discussed in January 2021 in Bouznika, Morocco, the file of appointing personalities to sovereign positions, while today's meeting between Saleh and Al-Mashri to complete this step.

Among the sovereign positions that the parties to the conflict held talks to fill are the presidency of the Supreme Judicial Council, the attorney general, the presidency of the Central Bank, the presidency of the Oil Corporation, and the presidency of the General Intelligence.

In a related context, the United Nations is sponsoring a new dialogue represented in the discussions of a joint committee of the two chambers to reach consensus on a constitutional basis that leads to elections that resolve the current crisis.

After lengthy discussions among the members of the committee, they agreed on 70 percent of the constitutional rule, while points of contention remained, which called the UN mission to bring together the presidents of the two councils, Saleh and Al-Mashri, in Geneva, then Turkey, and then Cairo to try to end that rule to expedite the elections.

Libya is going through a political crisis represented by the presence of two governments, the first mandated by the House of Representatives last March headed by Fathi Bashagha, and the second the National Unity Government headed by Abdel Hamid al-Dabaiba, which refuses to surrender except to a government that comes through a new parliament elected according to it.

Source: agencies