An agreement between Saleh and Al-Mishri.. The Libyan House of Representatives abandons the law establishing a constitutional court in Benghazi

The Libyan House of Representatives abandoned a law providing for the establishment of a constitutional court in Benghazi instead of the Constitutional Chamber in Tripoli, a project that caused the suspension of negotiations to resolve the crisis between the House of Representatives and the state.

"We agreed not to issue the law establishing the Constitutional Court so that this law does not conflict with the outcomes of the constitutional rule," Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh said, in a joint statement with the head of the Supreme Council of State, Khaled Al-Mashri.

The statement indicated that this comes "in response to the High Council of State's refusal to vote the House of Representatives on the draft law establishing the Constitutional Court... and our appreciation of the current conditions the country is going through and our desire to achieve the constitutional entitlement as a basis for the electoral process."

"This statement reassures all political parties regarding the controversy surrounding the aforementioned law," he added.

The joint statement of the Speaker of Parliament and the President of the High Council of State regarding the law establishing the Constitutional Court https://t.co/J536Y4g043

- The Libyan Parliament (@parliament_ly) December 23, 2022

On December 7, the Supreme Council of State announced the suspension of its communication and negotiations with the House of Representatives, due to its opposition to the latter's approval of the law establishing a constitutional court in the city of Benghazi instead of the constitutional chamber in the Supreme Court in the capital, Tripoli, on the sixth of the same month.

The House of Representatives and the state have been conducting negotiations for months through the joint constitutional track committee between them, which is formed according to an international initiative to agree on a constitutional basis on which elections will be held to solve the crisis in the country.

Libya is experiencing a conflict between a government appointed by the House of Representatives headed by Fathi Bashagha and the national unity government headed by Abdul Hamid al-Dabaiba, who refuses to hand over power except to a government that comes through a new elected parliament.