The House of Representatives voted to end the term of the Government of National Unity led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and consider government led by Osama Hammad the legitimate government until a new unified government is chosen.
This announcement came during a session of the House of Representatives in Benghazi, where the Speaker, Aqila Saleh, confirmed that the Chief Commander of the Army is the House of Representatives, as stated in the Constitutional Declaration.
Saleh said in a speech that he finds no solution to the crisis in Libya other than dividing the wealth between the regions to end the state of conflict. He also stressed that the preliminary stage that brought about the Presidential Council and the Government of National Unity ended with the expiry of the specified terms, calling for working on reconciliation and building an authority that achieves local governance and ends centralization.
The HoR Speaker pointed out that the executive authority that came with the political agreement did not achieve anything stated in the agreement, including preparing the conditions for the elections, adding that there is a group that wants the situation to remain as it is. He also called for reviewing the Geneva Agreement for the preliminary stage; especially since it was not included in the Constitutional Declaration, which had been considered the basis for all authorities.
Saleh explained that he had agreed with the Head of the Presidential Council, Mohammed Menfi, and the Head of the High Council of State, Mohammed Takala, at the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo to form a unified government, but Takala apologized for not attending a second meeting to set the mechanism for forming the government, claiming that he did not participate in preparing the budget.
He also said that there was no text obligating the House of Representatives to allow the High Council of State to participate in preparing the budget law, and that it had never participated in in preparing and approving the budget since the political agreement was implemented, adding that the purpose of Takala’s absence from the Cairo meeting had been his intention to obstruct the process of reaching a unified government.
