The head of the Supreme Council of State, Khaled Al-Mashri, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in Libya, Aguila Saleh, announced - today, Friday - their agreement to unify the executive authority as soon as possible, in a joint press conference held by the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rabat.
Al-Mashri said, "We agreed to unify the executive authority and sovereign positions in a period not exceeding next year," and promised that "the beginning of the year 2023 will not occur unless the executive authority and sovereign positions are united."
Al-Jazeera correspondent in Rabat had stated that Al-Mashri and Saleh had arrived in Rabat yesterday, Thursday, and held closed meetings, and that their discussions had made progress on a number of controversial points.
According to the reporter, the two sides' discussions focused on the files of sovereign positions, the constitutional basis on which the Libyan elections will be held, as well as the government division.
The meeting between Al-Mashri and Saleh came within the efforts to complete the discussions initiated by the “13 + 13” committee formed by the House of Representatives and the State in the Moroccan city of Bouznika in January 2021, regarding the file of appointing personalities to sovereign positions.
Al-Mashri explained that he agreed with Saleh that "the division of institutions has led to poor conditions for citizens and a deepening of the crisis," stressing the need to unify them.
He added, "A committee of the two councils previously met in the Moroccan city of Bouznika, and agreed on 2 out of 7 sovereign positions," and explained that the Supreme Council had previously voted to approve these outcomes.
Among the sovereign positions that the parties to the conflict held talks to fill are: the presidency of the Supreme Judicial Council, the attorney general, the presidency of the Central Bank, the presidency of the Oil Corporation, and the presidency of the General Intelligence.
For his part, Saleh said that he "agreed with Al-Mashri to implement the outputs of the Bouznika path related to sovereign positions before the end of next December," stressing work to reach a unified executive authority as soon as possible.
He added that they also agreed on "the need to resume dialogue and do what is necessary to hold presidential and parliamentary elections."
Morocco hosted 5 rounds of dialogue between the conflicting parties in Libya, which culminated in January 2021 by reaching an agreement on a mechanism for assuming sovereign positions, in addition to a meeting between the delegations of the High Council of State and the House of Representatives on the electoral law in September 2021.
After the unification of the Libyan executive authority early last year, represented by the Presidential Council and the Government of National Unity, the country has returned to division since last February, after the House of Representatives assigned a new government headed by Fathi Pashaga and was rejected by the State Council. or international recognition.