The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, has condemned the isolation of any Libyan city, and cutting off telecommunications under the pretext of maintaining security, reiterating that the truth of what has happened [in Benghazi] is a way of politicizing the investigations and then publicizing results that are illogical.
Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Thursday in Tripoli, Dbeibah rejected the deliberate telecommunications cutoff in Derna in last September and this month in Benghazi, calling on the Attorney General to investigate the incidents and publish the results to the public.
The Libyan Prime Minister said his government’s stance was steady regarding the need to hold free and fair elections to re-legitimize the executive and legislative authorities in the country.
“We need to have fair and consensus-based election laws that are implementable. The laws should not be made to befit one candidate and eliminate another.” Dbeibah added.
Khalifa Haftar’s forces cut off telecommunications on Benghazi for about eight days in early October when the Defense Minister, Al-Mahdi Al-Barghathi, of the Government of National Unity (2015-2021) entered the city coming from western Libya to his hometown following years of dispute with Haftar.
