The Government of National Unity issued a press statement on Tuesday evening in response to the House of Representatives’ decision to end the term of the executive authority in Tripoli, which came in the preliminary phase of the political agreement, represented by the Presidential Council and the Government of National Unity.
The government said that it derives its legitimacy from the Libyan Political Agreement included in the Constitutional Declaration, and is committed to its outcomes, which stipulate that the government will end its duties by holding presidential and legislative elections, and end the long transitional phase that the country has experienced and suffered.
The statement added that “in light of the government’s preoccupation with improving public services and taking a series of measures that contribute to improving the living and economic conditions of the sons and daughters of our honorable people, despite all the restrictions, Mr. Aguila Saleh met with a number of representatives who have occupied their seats for a decade and a half, to announce during this meeting a series of decisions that are repeated in form, content and means.”
According to the statement, the Speaker of the Council and the representatives who are around him insist on holding sessions that lack a quorum and are not characterised by integrity and transparency, and abandoning their obligations towards the political agreement and the constitutional declaration, and their pledges to the political parties, through their repeated announcements that they are withdrawing confidence from the government and appointing a parallel government that has no tangible effect, nor its formal portfolios.
The Government of National Unity considered these decisions, which do not change the reality at all, to be statements and positions issued by a political party struggling to extend the years of its enjoyment of benefits and salaries for the longest possible period, not by a legislative authority that represents the entire Libyan nation and establishes the principle of peaceful transfer of power, and that the government deals with these repeated statements as a non-binding political opinion, and a form of freedom of expression for one of the political parties, which the government believes in and guarantees to all parties and citizens alike, according to the text of the statement.
Last update: August 13, 2024 – 22:05
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