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Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Al Sarraj resigns, hoping that a new executive will complete the difficult political transition of the country, battered for years by a civil war against General Haftar’s militias that they control Libya Oriental. The announcement, after the rumors of the last days, arrived at night, with a video message on public television. “I declare my sincere desire to hand over my responsibilities to the next executive by the end of October,” he said. A date chosen, according to observers, not by chance, given that next month in Geneva negotiations are scheduled for the formation of a new government to replace the current one recognized by the UN.
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The objective would be to represent the different souls of the country (Tripolitania, Cireanica and Fezzan), reaching an agreement that provides for a new composition of the Presidential Council and then calling for elections. “I hope – added the leader of the Government of National Accord, recognized by the international community – that the dialogue commission will finish its work and elect a presidential council and a prime minister.” After all, General Haftar is also somehow leaving the stage to the president of the parliament installed in Tobruk, in his Cyrenaica, Aqila Saleh, who distinguished himself with a political proposal to unify the country’s institutions. The executive, with the military help of Turkey, had managed in June to repel an attack carried out in Tripoli for 14 months by the general’s forces. Khalifa haftar.
The move to Sirte from the military confrontation, now suspended by a ceasefire, has given way to street protests in the Libyan capital against poor living conditions and corruption. The protests that met with an arm wrestling between Sarraj and Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha were first suspended and then reinstated after a few days earlier in the month. Amid civil wars and unrest since 2011, the year of the fall and assassination of Colonel-dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Libya does not seem to find peace. There were also talks in Switzerland this month that appeared to lead to a resumption of oil production blocked by Haftar in January – a start, signaled for last Saturday by the US embassy, but which had not materialized.
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