Libya’s speaker of parliament called Monday for a new interim government to be established in the capital Tripoli, noting that the current executive has outlived its mandate. Those tensions pit a long-standing eastern-based parliament loyal to military strongman putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar against a Tripoli-based interim government formed last year. The government’s mandate “expired due to a censure motion voted by parliament, and the fact that its mandate ended on Dec. 24,” speaker Aguila Saleh said during a parliamentary session, in the eastern port city of Tobruk. Parliament in September passed a vote of no confidence in the interim government. Saleh, himself a candidate in the postponed presidential election, called on the attorney general to “investigate” the government’s expenses along with “abuses of power” including nominations to posts.

Source: Libya Today January 17, 2022 23:34 UTC