Around 40 House of Representatives’ (HoR) members have threatened to boycott the HoR sessions and hold a consultative session in Tripoli after Eid Al-Adha (in early July) in protest against the last closed session of the HoR; which saw the issuance of a number of decisions.
The signatories said the presidency of the HoR (mainly Speaker Aqila Saleh) indicated that all scheduled sessions would be held after Eid Al-Adha holiday, but held one anyway.
The members said the decisions taken in that closed session “are invalid”. They said the session, which was held on Monday, did not rise to the level of legislation or a parliamentary decision, describing what happened in the session as “recklessness” and an attempt to weaken the parliament.
They also gave the HoR’s presidency a deadline to cancel the decisions issued in the session no later than the date of holding. the consultative session in Tripoli, which “will be decisive in the history of the HoR’s tenure.”
The HoR spokesman, Abdullah Blehiq, said on Monday that the HoR members voted unanimously during a closed session to select a president and members of the Constitutional Circuit Court, which the Supreme Court ruled against and rendered as unconstitutional. The vote also dismissed the current Head of the Administrative Control Authority, selecting Khalid Al-Mabrouk as his successor, in addition to sacking the chairman and members of the board of directors of the National Planning Council and selecting a new board of directors headed by Ahmed Abridan.
