Delegations from Libya's rival legislative bodies reached an agreement in Morocco to collaborate with the United Nations to facilitate elections and bring an end to years of political deadlock.
Delegations from rival Libyan legislative bodies agreed at talks in Morocco on Thursday to work together with a United Nations mission to pave the way for elections to end years of political deadlock. Libya has undergone a chaotic decade since it split in 2014 between two administrations in its east and west following the NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
The talks in Bouznika, near the Moroccan capital Rabat, were between rival legislatures known as the High Council of State based in Tripoli in the west and the House of Representatives based in Benghazi in the east. Restoring stability in Libya requires “free and fair elections,” the two bodies said in a final statement. To that end, they agreed to cooperate with the UN mission in Libya to elaborate a roadmap to end the crisis in a way that ensures “Libyan ownership” of the political process. The two bodies also agreed to cooperate to form a national unity government as well as launch institutional, financial and security reform. Stephanie Koury, acting head of the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL), said last week the United Nations would convene a technical committee of Libyan experts to resolve contentious issues and put the country on a path to national elections. A political process to end years of institutional division, outright warfare and unstable peace has been stalled since an election scheduled for December 2021 collapsed, amid disputes over the eligibility of the main candidates. The House of Representatives was elected in 2014 as the national parliament with a four-year mandate to oversee a political transition. Under a 2015 Libyan Political Agreement the High State Council was formed as a consultative second chamber with an advisory role. But the House of Representatives then appointed its own rival government, saying the mandate of the prime minister of a government of national unity had expired
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