On Tuesday, Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdel-Hamid Dbaiba instructed both the Government of National Accord (GNA) and the eastern-based Interim Government not to take any actions that would affect a number of legal positions in public institutions.
According to decision No.2 of 2021, the PM also called on the ministers of the two outgoing governments to abide by their caretaker powers during the transition phase. Dbaiba confirmed that any measures taken in contravention of the caretaker tasks are null and void, and would not have any legal effect.
Libya’s new interim Prime Minister, Dbaiba was sworn in on Monday to lead the war-torn country’s transition to elections in December, after years of chaos and division. A United Nations-supervised process is aimed at uniting the country, building on a ceasefire signed in October between rival administrations in the country’s east and west.
Dbaiba was elected during UN-sponsored talks in February, alongside an interim three-member Presidential Council. The PM’s swearing-in comes after the Libyan Parliament approved his cabinet last week, in a move that was hailed as “historic”.