According to media sources, 30 members of the Libyan Forum for Political Dialogue (LPDF) signed a statement rejecting a proposal by the UN mission to reduce the percentage of voting inside the forum. They threatened to withdraw from the ongoing peace dialogue, if the mechanism went ahead.
The statement claimed that this was over the proposal of the United Nation Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to create a new quorum, “which aims to pass as a mechanism for selecting the occupants of the new executive authority.” It confirmed that the proposal regarding voting on two options to reduce the percentage required to pass decisions was designed by specific people, without mentioning names.
The statement rejected “any attempt to circumvent or ignore the majority vote in the dialogue forum.”
A source from the 30-member told Al-Marsad news that, “we are not an elected authority to pass 50+1 proposals. The voting between us should be by a majority of consensus only.”
The signatories called on UNSMIL to, “not obstruct the voting process; otherwise, they would withdraw from the dialogue.”