Libya – Bashagha pledges to protect Electoral Transition

Libyan Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha welcomed the consensus between the two houses of parliament and the Supreme State Council during the Constitutional Process meetings in Cairo.

Bashagha said in a tweet on his official Twitter account that the rapprochement between the House of Representatives and the state on the constitutional entitlement will ensure the transfer of power according to elections that reflect the will of the Libyan people.

Bashagha said he and his government support any consensus that may emerge among the legislative authorities concerned.

On Friday, the Libyan Constitutional Path Committee in the Egyptian capital Cairo concluded its meetings by approving 70% (about 137 articles) of the constitutional document on which the next elections are to be held.

The committee assigned a small committee to prepare consensual drafting of the articles. The committee surveyed the articles in question, prepared a compromise text, and then referred them to the House of Representatives and the Supreme Council of the State for consideration.

The committee explained that the agreement dealt with most of the articles of Parts I, II, III and IV, and left some of the very few articles for further review, study and amendment. It will be discussed in a next round with the rest of the remaining articles, as the draft constitution is one and indivisible unit, next June 11th.