Libya: after the Cairo agreement, are we moving towards the formation of a unified government?

The Libyan tripartite agreement reached on Sunday March 10 in Cairo, under the sponsorship of the Arab League, should lead to the formation of a new unified government instead of the two currently in place.

He will be responsible for organizing the elections that have been hoped for for years in this country.  

The three Libyan legislative bodies, the Presidential Council, the High Council of State and the House of Representatives finally agreed to isolate Prime Minister Dbeibah (our photo).

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The three legislative bodies, the Presidential Council, the High Council of State and the House of Representatives finally agreed to isolate Prime Minister Dbeibah.

But the latter holds on and refuses to hand over power, except to an elected government.

However, the economic decline that

Libya

has experienced in recent months, the devaluation of the value of the dinar against the dollar and the excessive public spending of the Dbeibah government have undoubtedly caused the Prime Minister to lose his popularity in western Libya. .

Standoff against a backdrop of financial crisis

His relatives and supporters, except his family established throughout the state apparatus, have abandoned him: the latest, Al-Seddik al-Kabir, the curator of the Central Bank.

A standoff developed between the two men against a backdrop of financial crisis.

All these factors accelerated the achievement of the agreement of March 10 in Cairo, which aims, in addition to appointing a reduced government capable of leading the country towards elections, to relaunch political talks, to unify the sovereign institutions and to agree on a legal framework for these elections. 

This rapprochement also comes after the agreement, at the beginning of March, in Tunis, between 120 members of two chambers of Parliament, which opened the way to the Cairo summit meeting.

However, much remains to be done before leading to the appointment of a government of national unity which will certainly not see the light of day before the end of Ramadan.

If all goes well. 

A quadripartite dialogue table

Abdoulaye Batilly, the UN special envoy to Libya, 

 indicated

on

he wrote implying that he agreed.

Beforehand, he had proposed organizing a quadripartite dialogue table in the presence of Abdelhamid Dbeibah, the Prime Minister of Tripoli, which was categorically refused by the eastern Libyan camp. 

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