Libyan MP Jibril Ouhaida announced today, Monday, that the Libyan House of Representatives in Tobruk in eastern Libya, will hold a session on the first of next March to vote on granting confidence to the new government headed by Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha.

Ouhaida, who was elected in the Kufra region in the far southeast of Libya and a resident of Benghazi, the capital of Cyrenaica, told Nova Agency that the Libyan House of Representatives will hold a session in early March to vote on granting confidence to the Bashagha government.

It is expected that the formation of the new government, on which consultations and negotiations are taking place, will be completed next Thursday, February 24. Bashagha, the former interior minister in the Government of National Accord, is then expected to present his team before the House of Representatives next Monday, February 28, and according to Ouhaida, a strong backer of the Bashagha government, a vote of confidence could be held the next day, Tuesday, March 1.

Adapted from Nova Agency