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| Supreme Court rules HoR illegal |
| 2014-11-07 |
| [Libya Herald] The Supreme Court has issued an unexpected judgement in the dispute over the constitutionality of the House of Representatives. It has decided that proceedings of the General National Congress' so-called February Committee, which created the GNC's replacement, the House of Representatives, were unconstitutional. Therefore this summer's election and the representatives chosen to form the new parliament, were invalid. It had been expected that the court would be ruling on the technical issue of the hand-over of power. Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... opponents of the HoR have argued that because the newly-elected politicians did not come to Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... for a formal ceremony marking the official transfer of authority from the old parliament to the new, they had never formally assumed power. |
| Posted by:Fred |