The new president of the Libyan Presidency Council, Muhammad Al-Manfi, is expected to arrive in the city of Benghazi (eastern Libya) on a visit that comes within the framework of the new newly elected interim authority to unify the country.

Exiled was quoted as saying that he is visiting Benghazi to unify the country and achieve true reconciliation.

The elected Libyan official is heading to Benghazi from Greece, where he was serving as Libya’s ambassador there, a week after he was elected president of the Presidential Council, along with Abdel Hamid Dabaiba as prime minister to lead Libya during a transitional phase that is supposed to last about 10 months until the presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place. Next December 24.

A source close to the president of the Presidential Council of the island said that the exiled will deliver a speech to academics and faculty members at the University of Benghazi.

The source added that he would stay in eastern Libya for a few days, where he would meet several personalities in the city of Tobruk, as part of his congratulations on his assumption of the new position.

For his part, Al-Jazeera correspondent Nasser Shadid said that the exile, who is from Tobruk in eastern Libya, will send messages to everyone from the city of Benghazi that he is coming to reform and unify the Libyans.

He added that he would hold meetings with military and political leaders and notables, noting that his visit to Benghazi would constitute a message to the military arms of the retired Major General Khalifa Haftar.

A few days ago, the new Libyan prime minister, Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, said that his government would work to bring peace between the parties in the country and solve the major problems they face.

Dabaiba is supposed to form his government within a 21-day period, starting from last Friday, when the participants in the Geneva Forum for Political Dialogue voted to choose the members of the transitional authority.

In the event that the new government does not obtain the confidence of the House of Representatives divided between Tobruk and Tripoli, the new government must be presented to the Dialogue Forum for a vote.

Foreign interference


On the other hand, Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum stressed his country's rejection of all forms of interference in Libyan internal affairs.

This confirmation came during a phone call with the head of the new Libyan government, Abd al-Hamid al-Dabaiba, during which he confirmed his country's solidarity with the Libyan people.

The Algerian minister said in a tweet on Twitter that he confirmed to Dabaiba and Moussa Al-Kouni, a deputy in the new presidential council, Algeria's willingness to cooperate and work with the government and the interim executive authority to achieve security and stability in Libya.

The transitional authority elected at the Geneva meetings had received support from the United States, the European Union, Turkey and Arab countries.