Libyan Member of Parliament (MP), Ali Abu Zriba, said that the attempt to overthrow the Libyan Parliament is a conspiracy, driven from internal and external elements.
In a statement to the members of the House of Representatives (HoR), Abu Zriba indicated that the Parliament faced difficult challenges since taking office on August 4th, 2014. He said that its members faced many threats when they headed to Tobruk, despite the fact that the Fatwa House was affiliated with the HoR. However, it came to the forefront in its opposition and played a role in strengthening the division.
Abu Zriba said, “in November 2014, the Libyans entered into a long political dialogue under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) mission, and the political agreement signed in Skhirat was born in 2015. This dialogue combined the High Council of State (HCS) and the Presidential Council headed by Fayez Al-Sarraj, who led a heterogeneous executive body. Realistically, this political settlement did not achieve any significant success. The polarisation intensified, and the situation became dangerous.”
The Libyan MP added, “in a new step by the international community, a series of meetings have become under the title the “Political Dialogue Forum” in late 2020 with the aim of holding elections as soon as possible. On February 5th, 2021, the UN mission launched a political dialogue with a specific number that it chose to decide the fate of the people and to know the extent of the bribes that the mission kept silent about.”
“A new Presidential Council has emerged that does not differ from its predecessor except in the number of its members and the Head of government, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba,” he noted.
Abu Zriba pointed out that “the HoR gave confidence to the government, which called itself the Government of National Unity (GNU), but it failed us all and squandered the elections.”
“Al-Dbaiba worked to thwart the elections in accordance with the interests of the one-family government, so the Parliament moved again and launched a national dialogue to search for a way out through an intra-Libyan dialogue, and to bring the views closer,” he said.
The MP explained that the international community disrupted the Bashagha government and supported the outgoing government of Al-Dbaiba. He also argued that Libyans’ money went to the leaders of the armed groups to protect Al-Dbaiba’s family. Threats were made to the families of members of the Parliament of kidnapping, murder, extortion and attempts to buy off the Parliament’s absence from the confidence-granting procedure.
Abu Zriba said that the UN calls for elections and in secret supports and strengthens the conflict. According to him the UN allegedly knows the source of the imbalance and disease, but they want Libya to remain captive to foreign wills, to be an arena for settling foreign accounts and to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The Libyan MP asserted that the attempt to overthrow the HoR is a conspiracy. He stressed that the Parliament is fighting a fierce battle at the national and international levels and will continue until simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections are held.