Members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and the High Council of State (HCS), met Thursday in Cairo and agreed to form a new unified government and to call on the House of Representatives to announce the opening of nominations to begin receiving recommendations and studying the files of candidates to head a “competent government” with national leadership.
In their final statement, the attendees called for the necessity of holding presidential and legislative elections in accordance with the agreed-upon laws issued by the House of Representatives, while expanding the circle of consensus, and submitting a roadmap proposal by members of both HoR and HCS as the basic path to completing the remaining entitlements necessary to reach elections.
They stressed the need to intensify and unify efforts to end the state of political and institutional division that increases the spread of corruption, high prices, and the unprecedented deterioration of citizens’ living conditions.
They called on the international community to support national consensus and respect the will and sovereignty of the national decision-making process and the unity and integrity of the Libyan territory.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aqila Saleh, the Head of the High Council of State, Mohammed Takala, and the Head of the Presidential Council, Mohammed Menfi, were scheduled to meet in Cairo in mid-July to resume their meetings that began in Cairo last March under the auspices of the Arab League, but Takala informed the Arab League of suspending his communication with the HoR due to the latter’s approval of the state budget, last week, unilaterally without consulting with the HCS.
