The seizure of the headquarters of the Government of National Unity (PNU) and the building of the Libyan Ministry of Defense in Tripoli took place on the evening of Wednesday, December 15. This was reported by the Al-Jamahiriya news agency.
It is noted that armed people broke into government buildings. The agency does not provide details about the belonging of the seized state institutions to any of the groups operating in Tripoli.
According to the agency, a number of districts of the Libyan capital were cut off from electricity.
This happened just eight days before the December 24 presidential elections in Libya.
According to Sky News Arabia, the buildings were taken over by the Al Samoud Brigade militia. Its leader said that there will be no presidential elections in Libya, and all government offices in Tripoli will be closed.
Earlier, on December 14, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that it is not so much the formal observance of the timing of the elections in Libya that it is important for Russia as the participation of representatives of all the leading political forces of the country in them. The main thing, according to the minister, “is that all the roughness that is now being manifested in the preparation for the elections, were eliminated.” He also noted that Moscow strongly recommends the United States and Europe not to interfere in the Libyan elections.
In early February 2021, the UN-sponsored Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in Geneva elected a transitional executive branch of Libya, which will lead the country until the general elections scheduled for December 24.
On March 10, the Libyan parliament approved the composition of the Government of National Unity of Abdel Hamid Dbeiba, for which 132 out of 134 deputies voted.
After the overthrow and assassination in 2011 of the head of state Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, armed conflicts between various groups did not stop. There is a dual power in the country: in the east, there is a parliament elected by the people, cooperating with the Libyan National Army of Marshal Khalifa Haftar, and in the west, in the capital Tripoli, the Government of National Accord, formed with the support of the UN and the European Union.
Source: IZ
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