The Prime Minister of the Libyan government-designated by the House of Representatives, Fathi Bashagha, said today, Tuesday, that the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh is sitting in Tripoli, protected by a limited number of militias, some of whom are believed to be linked to international terrorist groups, with the return of terrorist groups’ activity, especially in southern Libya.
During his participation in the British Foreign Affairs Committee’s session entitled “Libya’s security, foreign policy and the roadmap to recovery,” Bashagha added that under Dbeibeh administration, we have seen the revenues that Libya obtains in exchange for its natural resources are shamelessly used to protect personal interests, instead of using them for the benefit of the Libyan people. His period witnessed an unprecedented rise in food and drug prices without government treatment, in addition to the aggravation of the electricity crisis despite all the large funds that were spent on it according to government data. Moreover, in the first incident of its kind in Libya, Libyan students spent their entire academic year without books because of the conflict and the competition for commissions and deals.
The Libyan Prime Minister indicated that the era of the national unity government witnessed the return of political and institutional division, the rise of hate speech, incitement to violence and the thwarting of the dream of 2.8 million Libyans who were looking forward to changing through the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for December 24, 2021 according to Geneva roadmap, indicating that the Libyan people are not satisfied with this situation, and the best evidence of this is the demonstrations and protests that the country has witnessed during the past few weeks in all regions, the largest of which was In the capital, Tripoli.
He indicated that the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity was chosen after a closed vote in Geneva in March 2021 in a process similar to corruption recognized by the United Nations, while he refused to accept the result of the House of Representatives vote to withdraw confidence from him, even though he is the same parliament that granted his government legitimacy in an official session in Sirte.
Bashagha stated that “my government will work to provide investment and reconstruction opportunities and is ready to cooperate and work with you on the file of the Agreement on Energy Security and Transit Trade and to help reduce the flow of illegal immigrants crossing into southern Europe through my country.”