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Engineer and wealthy businessman Abdul Hamid Dabaiba or Dabaiba, 61, was elected on Friday (February 6, 2021) as prime minister for the transition period in Libya, and the man known for his proximity to Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood He will run his country until the general elections scheduled for the end of the year.
Dabaiba was unexpectedly elected by the participants in the dialogue between the Libyan parties in Switzerland under the auspices of the United Nations, in preparation for the elections scheduled for December, and Muhammad Yunus Al-Manfi won the presidency of the Presidential Council.
After five days of meetings, Fathi Bashagha, the powerful interior minister in the Government of National Accord, was among those most likely to win the post of prime minister. But Abdel Hamid Dabaiba’s list got 39 votes out of 73. Who will be the new Libyan prime minister?
Dabaiba, or Dabaiba, was born in 1959 in Misurata, about 200 km east of Tripoli, a coastal city that historically was at the crossroads of trade routes through the desert and maritime trade in the Mediterranean.
Under the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, which was overthrown by a popular revolution in 2011 after 42 years of rule, Libya’s third-largest city witnessed an industrial and economic boom that benefited several families and local notables, including the family of the new prime minister.
Abdul Hamid Dabaiba is married with six children and has a master’s degree in planning and construction techniques from the University of Toronto, Canada. Under Gaddafi, he had several important responsibilities and was within the circle of people close to the late president.
He ran the Libyan Development and Investment Company, a large government company. In particular, he oversaw construction projects, including 1,000 houses in Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte and an administrative complex in the Youfra region.
Dabaiba made his fortune in the construction field to become one of Misrata’s most successful businessmen alongside his cousin Ali Dabaiba, and investigations were opened against them in Libya and other countries on charges of embezzlement.
Abdul Hamid Dabaiba also headed the Administrative Center Development Authority, a huge public investment agency tasked with modernizing Libya’s infrastructure and which was under Ali Dabaiba’s administration between 1989 and 2011.
He is considered close to the Muslim Brotherhood and Ankara, which has economic interests in Misurata, and heads a business group with branches around the world, including Turkey.
After the 2011 revolution, Abd al-Hamid Dabaiba founded the Libya Future Movement and maintained a modest presence in the political arena. The program he proposed looks ambitious for a transition period that will last barely ten months and is supposed to lift the country out of ten years of chaos, leading to legislative and presidential elections in December.
On Wednesday, during a video intervention in front of the forum held in Geneva, he highlighted the need for education and training to be a path to stability, and for the security services to be professional and limit weapons at hand. of the states.
The new prime minister wants to establish a ministry for national reconciliation, reduce the gap between employee salaries, divide the country into security zones and solve the problem of prolonged power cuts in six months.
He also pledged to work to bring back the main foreign investors who left Libya after 2011 and to create jobs for young people who are not necessarily in the army and police.
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