On Sunday, three senior Libyan officials announced they had agreed on the “necessity” of forming a new unified government to oversee long-delayed elections.
A political process to end Libya’s more than decade-long conflict has been stuck since an election slated for December 2021 was called off due to disagreements about the eligibility of the leading contenders.
The leaders are Mohamed Menfi, president of the Presidential Council (PC), Mohamed Takala, head of the High State Council (HSC), all of whom are based in Tripoli, and Aguila Saleh, speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) in Benghazi.
In a joint statement, the three leaders urged the UN Mission in Libya and the international community to endorse their recommendations.
They said they had agreed to form a technical committee to “look into controversial points”.
They met in Cairo on the invitation of Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit.
“We feel that the actions agreed upon today are an essential first step. “They are results that reflect Libyans’ desire to hold elections,” Menfi told the journalists following the meeting.
