Libya: The New PM postpone the designation of the government
Libya’s newly-elected prime minister could not designed members of a much-anticipated Cabinet before the expected deadline on Thursday, which leads to ask many questions about if his transitional government could unite Libya’s factions.
It was expected that the Prime Minister designate Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah declared his government in a news conference from the capital, Tripoli, and send it to Libya’s House of Representatives for the acceptation.
However, Dbeibah informed reporters that he just shared with Libyan lawmakers suggested strategies for the choice of Cabinet members and the plan of his priorities in the next period.
The designation of the government is in fact a part of an UN-backed transitional way that aims to hold general elections in the war-torn North African country by the end of the year. Since 2015, Libyan state institutions have been separated between two administrations; one in the east and the other in the west.
Dbeibah informed reporters in Tripoli without specifying when he would actually make the submission: We are ready to submit the names (of Cabinet ministers) but we should consult among ourselves and examine candidate names meticulously. He also said that he visualizes a government of technocrats that would represent Libya’s different geographic areas and social segments.
He also indicated: These are critical times and we are taking into consideration that the Cabinet must genuinely achieve national unity and seek consensus and reconciliation.
Dbeibah added that the country’s sovereign ministerial portfolios should be equally separated between candidates from Libya’s three key geographic areas in the east, the west and the south.
It should note that Dbeibah was elected, earlier this month, as prime minister by Libyan delegates at an UN-sponsored meeting next to Geneva. There was also a selection by the 75-member Libyan Political Dialogue Forum a three-member Presidential Council, and with Dbeibah they should govern the country via general elections on December 24. Mohammad Younes Menfi, who is a Libyan diplomat from the country’s east, was designated as chairman of the council.
