A committee at Libya’s High Council of State (HCS) announced that it had sorted the files of candidates for state sovereign positions.
In a statement, the HCS announced the names of the accepted candidates for the:
Head of the Audit Bureau
Head of the High National Elections Commission (HNEC)
Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL)
Deputy of the Administrative Control Authority (ACA)
Deputy of the National Anti-Corruption Authority (NACA)
The HCS also asked the candidates to submit a video recording including personal identification, professional biography, and their vision of the institution’s development for the target position, and its work program. The video should be between 5-10 minutes in length and delivered no later than Sunday, 29 January.
The HCS confirmed that any candidate who does not submit the required video will be excluded.
In October 2022, Libyan Parliament Speaker Ageela Saleh and the HCS Head, Khaled Al-Mishri agreed to unify the executive authorities of Libya by 2023. They held a meeting in Morocco to discuss the political blockage, the constitution, and the distribution of sovereign positions.
During a joint press conference at the headquarters of the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Al-Mishri said: “2023 will not come unless the executive authority and sovereign positions are united.”
Last week, Saleh said that “the constitutional declaration is the legal basis for ending the current political blockage.” He called for all articles of the constitutional document to be put to a referendum, after being agreed upon by the Parliament and the High Council of State.
In an interview with Libya’s Al-Masar TV, Saleh said that the “constitutional declaration is the legitimate basis for power, and the current elections can be held based on it.” He affirmed that the Parliament “issued all the requirements entrusted to it to complete the elections.”
The Parliament Speaker stressed that “the Dbaiba government’s stay in power is completely excluded, because it is an illegitimate body after Parliament withdrew confidence from it. There is an existing proposal to form a mini-government, whose term ends with holding elections in September,” he noted.
Saleh pointed out that the international community imposed pressure, but the HCS complicated the political scene. “The fundamental dispute between the two chambers is about dual nationals who want to run for elections,” Saleh explained.
“I proposed giving the winner of the Parliamentary and Presidential elections one month to renounce their foreign citizenship,” he said.
Saleh claimed that the HCS Head, Khaled Al-Mishri did not abide by the Bouznika agreement regarding sovereign positions, and the unification of the executive authority.