Libya: suspicion of corruption during the election of the transitional prime minister

The new Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibah.

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Delegates from the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum appointed by the UN to elect a prime minister have reportedly received bribes to elect Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, who was effectively elected on February 5, according to a leaked report by the UN revealed by Agence France Presse on Sunday February 28.

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Mathieu Galtier

At least three members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum received between $ 150,000 and $ 200,000 bribes to elect Abdel Hamid Dbeibah as prime minister, according to an excerpt from the report written by the UN expert panel on Libya.

These accusations could call

into question the election of Dbeibah

.

Its list had obtained, on February 5, 39 votes against 34 to the opposing list, given however favorite.

The United Nations mission in Libya is also very weak.

She oversaw the work of the Political Dialogue Forum from A to Z.

However, the report evokes surreal scenes like that of one of the participants of the Forum making a scandal in the lobby of a hotel in Tunis when he discovered that colleagues had been offered up to half a million dollars. in bribes, compared to just $ 200,000 for him.

The profile of the 75 participants had

also raised controversy

.

Among them was, for example, Ali Dbeibah, brother-in-law of the future Prime Minister and extremely wealthy businessman from West Libya.

Rumors had circulated for months about possible cases of corruption.

At the end of November, Stephanie Williams, the deputy head of the mission at the time, assured reporters that an investigation had been launched and that the conclusions would be swift.

Obviously, they were not enough.

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