Libya's best chance of peace in years is at risk of unravelling as factions tussle over looming national elections that were envisaged as a way to end a decade of chaotic division.
Particular controversy has hung over the role of the parliament, which was elected seven years ago and mostly backed the eastern side in the war.
"It's a way of creating more urgency for the elections as these announcements make it harder for anyone to bank on the survival of Dbeibah's government," said Libya researcher Jalel Harchaoui of the Global Initiative thinktank. Any election would take place in towns and cities controlled by armed forces whose own leaders may be candidates - opening the way for losing opponents to cry fraud.
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