The long-standing dispute over the mandate of the current government in Libya risks creating a new parallel administration and a power vacuum, political experts say. On Tuesday, parliamentary speaker Aguila Saleh called for the termination of the interim national unity government on the grounds that its mandate expired on December 24. “The longer elections are pushed back, the more the legitimacy of the current national unity government will come under attack. In 2014, a parallel government emerged in the east to compete for leverage against an internationally-backed government in the west. The warring parties agreed to a ceasefire, mediated by the UN in October 2020, which led to the formation of the incumbent interim national unity government.

Source: Libya Today January 20, 2022 11:58 UTC