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- Rounds of political conflict and legal controversy, which began 8 years ago in 2014, against the background of the failure of the handover process between the General National Congress (currently the Supreme Council of the State) and the newly elected House of Representatives at that time;

A controversy was not resolved by the ruling of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court in the interest of the Supreme Court, nor by the Moroccan Skhirat Agreement two years later in 2016, despite international pressure.

Marathon dialogues took place between the two legislative bodies over the years between Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and European capitals, so that the two opponents returned to Morocco, where the President of the Supreme Council of State Khaled Al-Mashri and Parliament Speaker Aqila Saleh announced their agreement to unify the executive authority as soon as possible, in a joint press conference held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Moroccan in Rabat.

Two representatives of the Libyan Dialogue delegations in Morocco exchange minutes of the meetings of the second round (Moroccan Foreign Affairs)

Agreement or common concerns?

Al-Mashri and Aqeela’s meeting, which comes as a continuation of the discussions of the “13 + 13” committee formed by the House of Representatives and the state in the Moroccan city of Bouznika in January 2021, regarding the file of appointing personalities to sovereign positions, political analyst Abdel Salam Al-Rajhi believes that it is nothing more than a proactive step for the envoy’s move The new UN, because "a measure like the one that was taken in Geneva and produced a presidential council and a new government is considered a danger to Al-Mashri and Aqila, so the interests of the two parties converged despite the great disagreement between them."

Al-Rajhi confirms - to Al Jazeera Net - that Aqeela and Al-Mashri tried to appear as agreeable, and that they could produce a unified authority capable of organizing elections without the intervention of the UN mission, "but their purpose is to expand and stay in power and obtain the largest possible gains after their harsh experience in Tunisia and Geneva and their loss." The position of President of the Presidential Council.

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, Mr. Nasser Bourita: The consensus of the second round is "critical" in the direction of selecting holders of sovereign positions.


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Sovereign positions

Khaled Al-Mashri, who stated to the media that the two parties agreed to “unify the executive authority and sovereign positions within a period not exceeding the beginning of next year,” explained that among the sovereign positions discussed by the two parties: the presidency of the Supreme Judicial Council, the attorney general, the presidency of the Central Bank, the presidency of the Oil Corporation, and the presidency General Intelligence with problematic files since the Skhirat Agreement.

For his part, Aguila Saleh affirmed that he "agreed with Al-Mashri to implement the outcomes of the Bouznika path related to sovereign positions before the end of next December," stressing work to reach a unified executive authority as soon as possible, and agreeing on "the need to resume dialogue and do what is necessary to conduct Presidential and Parliamentary elections" as soon as possible.

Identical parliamentary sources from Benghazi and Tripoli explained - to Al Jazeera Net - that the Bouznika agreement stipulated that the governor of the Central Bank and the head of the Administrative Control Authority would be from the eastern region, while the head of the Audit Bureau, the attorney general, and the head of the National Elections Commission would be from the western region, while the region was in charge Southern Presidency of the Supreme Court and the Anti-Corruption Commission.


stick to implementation

While talking about sovereign positions comes back to the fore again, journalist and writer Salihen Zerouali asks: "How can this be achieved, who will give up? And what forces are able to remove the leaders of these influential institutions?"

Al-Zarawali sees - in his speech to Al-Jazeera Net - that changing the sovereign positions is one package in a short period of time, not exceeding the beginning of this year, seems difficult to achieve, especially the position of the Central Governor of Libya, which has been occupied by Siddiq Al-Kabeer since 2011.

The Prime Minister of the National Unity Government, Abdel Hamid al-Dabaiba, announced his complete rejection of this step, despite the local and international welcome, and renewed his call to the Speakers of the House of Representatives and the State to “accelerate the adoption of a fair constitutional rule that ends the legal problem that prevents the holding of elections, as happened last December,” to enter the As a result, he engaged in a war of words with Al-Mashri via Twitter.

The Libyans are asking everyone to fulfill their obligations towards the elections. Talking about parallel tracks such as sharing sovereign positions is no longer acceptable.

I renew my call to Messrs. Aqila and Al-Mishri to expedite the adoption of a fair constitutional rule that ends the legal problem that prevents the holding of elections, as happened last December.

— Abdulhamid AlDabaiba (@Dabaibahamid) October 21, 2022

Tweets held the scene

Successive tweets, commented by political analyst Abdul Salam Al-Rajhi, that she "confirmed to public opinion that the disruption of the elections last year was not due to the national unity government, but rather because of the House of Representatives and the State," despite the two parliaments accusing Dabaiba of clinging to power and wasting public money in exchange for thwarting the electoral process, which they saw as Dabaiba. He violated its laws by running for the presidency despite his pledge not to run before he was elected prime minister in Geneva.

Al-Rajhi also sees that the reaction of the Presidential Council headed by Muhammad al-Minfi, and the reaction of Prime Minister Abdel Hamid al-Dabaiba come within the framework of fear for their positions, saying that “the exile for months has been asked by political forces, parties, civil society institutions, and even demonstrators in the squares to produce a constitutional base and electoral laws and to issue them by decrees. presidential elections, but abstained out of fear for his position and the gains he had achieved.

The position of the Government of National Unity rejecting, according to journalist Salehin Al-Zarawali, comes because it "sees that the elections are first, and that the new bodies are the ones who have the right to rename the sovereign positions, and the crisis will continue and there are no solutions in one package as they say, and herein lies the problem," adding that The biggest problem is the crisis of sovereign positions, which will extend the life of the dispute even more.

Al-Rajhi believes that "everyone fears for his place and seeks to continue in power. All those present do not want to resolve the crisis, but rather to continue it, because the first step to resolving the crisis is elections, and everyone does not want it."

The unification of the executive authority was at the hands of the Committee of 75 under the auspices of the United Nations two years ago, where the new unified authority was represented by the Presidential Council and the Government of National Unity, and they were tasked with preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections within one year, which did not materialize to increase the House of Representatives’ withdrawal of confidence from the Dabaiba government and the assignment of a government A new presidency, headed by Bashagha, complicates the matter and returns the country to the state of division that it has experienced since 2014.