The Libyan Presidential Council has proposed a new cabinet lineup for a unity government in a move to end the chaos that has afflicted the country in the past few years.
The council said late Sunday in the Moroccan city of Skhirat that it has agreed on an 18-member cabinet that includes three female members.
According to a UN-brokered deal signed in December by representatives of various parties taking part in the intra-Libyan dialogue, a new government should be based in Tripoli, and should win the approval of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives, Libya's internationally recognized parliament.
Sunday's proposal is the second of its kind by the council since Libya's rival parties agreed to form a unity government.
The House of Representatives on Jan. 25 rejected the council's first proposal over its size -- 32 ministers and four deputy prime ministers.
The North African country plunged into turmoil in 2011 after the fall of former leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Since July 2014, the Libya crisis deepened as two rival parliaments and governments started to fight for legitimacy.
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Libya’s Presidential Council named a revised lineup late on Sunday for a unity government under a United Nations-backed plan aimed at ending the conflict in the North African state...
ReplyDeleteOne of the council’s members, Fathi al-Majbari, said in a televised statement that the list of 13 ministers and five ministers of state had been sent to Libya’s eastern parliament for approval.
But in a sign of continuing divisions over how to bring together Libya’s warring factions, two of the council’s nine members refused for a second time to put their signatures to the proposed government, according to a document posted on the Presidential Council’s Facebook page.
The U.N. plan under which the unity government has been named was designed to help Libya stabilise and tackle a growing threat from Islamic State militants. It was signed in Morocco in December, but has been opposed by hard-liners on both sides from the start and suffered repeated delays....france24.com