Everything in Libya is twofold, and if you do not get what you want in the West, you will get it in the East. Everything is analyzed, formed and decided according to two implicit states, coexisting at best and fighting at worst. As the new prime minister, this is only credible, because the spectacle of Libyan "foolishness" continues.
The French magazine Le Point says that Bashagha came to offer a double thank you, first, as an expression of gratitude, and then a request to leave the place immediately, and secondly, to Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, who is determined to remain in his position until the elections, especially that international bodies, led by the United Nations, what It still considers him head of the executive body.
She added that this is due to the fact that Dabaiba is, in fact, the president of the west of the country, while Bashagha, who was until recently the minister of interior in his government, is nothing but a person driven by a strong desire for power to leave the west to be crowned prime minister in the east of the country.
Chaos fueled by political agendas
In this political chaos - according to a magazine article by Benoit Dalma - and amid this institutional patchwork dominated by heterogeneous hordes of special interests, regional greed, warlords disguised as messengers of national harmony, and spoils turned into semi-independent monarchies, nothing grows right.
This, according to the writer, even though 6.5 million Libyans would have lived in their oil-rich country, in Naeem, had it not been for the 40 years of the dictatorship of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi that generated this chaos fueled by foreign agendas.
While waiting for the hypothetical fruits of the 2011 revolution, the young Libyan democracy is now equipped with many institutions. There are - as the writer scoffs - two parliaments, two governments and two prime ministers, which allows us to say without hesitation, that the Maghreb region has become, since Thursday afternoon, comprising 6 countries, which are Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia, western Libya and eastern Libya.
The writer said that whoever wants to understand Libya does not need ideas, but rather needs a huge memory and strong nerves, as rumors circulated about shooting at dawn on Thursday, targeting the convoy of Abdel Hamid Dabaiba to try to assassinate him.
A few hours later, the parliament in Tobruk in the east of the country - which has not changed for 8 years as if appointed forever, according to the writer - unanimously appointed Fathi Pashaga as prime minister, amid media ambiguity and stopped broadcasting at the time of voting.
Even the rumors in Libya are double
And because everything in Libya is double, as Benoit sees, the rumors are also double, as Bashagha was the target of an alleged assassination attempt in February 2021, when people shot his convoy as he did with the Dabaiba convoy on Thursday, although official sources did not confirm any Of the two attempts, and thus when the Tobruk parliament votes to trust the “second” prime minister, Libya will have two governments, completing the double vertical structure of power.
If the international community has installed a government of national unity in Tripoli, then Tobruk has done the same and intends to continue its path, with the support of Cairo President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Kremlin led by Vladimir Putin and France by President Emmanuel Macron.
And all this chaos - as the writer concludes - is a consequence of the electoral failure that followed the United Nations decision to invite Libyans to the polls on December 24, 2021 to run for presidential and legislative elections on the same day, as if purifying Libya's wounds would suffice him to plunge it into the bath of democracy.
And because only the United Nations believes in conducting this ballot, everything ended the day before its time, the electoral process was blew up, the population went about their daily lives, and the blocs conspired against Libya to divide it into two separate states, so that the Maghreb region would become 6 countries, perhaps in the near future. , However, the multiplicity of captains may sink the ship.