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| Cyrenaican and Fezzanese tribes throw weight behind House of Representatives |
| 2015-03-23 |
| [Libya Herald] Tribal leaders from Cyrenaica, Fezzan, Zintan, and the Tebus have reaffirmed their support for the House of Representatives (HoR) as the sole legitimate legislature in Libya, as well as for the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its war on terrorism. "We've elected the House of Representatives. The General National Congress has expired," Tebu representative Abdullah Moussa told Libya News 24 in an interview. According to one person present at a meeting of the tribal leaders in Tobruk on Saturday that was also attended by a number of HoR members, the first step to "true dialogue" would be for the UN to give more weight to the HoR as the only legitimate authority in Libya over what he referred to as the "coup" carried out by 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... and Congress. In the meantime, the tribes called for the expediting of the Libyan Constitution "in accordance with the aspirations of the Libyan people", and in the meantime, proposed that the 1951 Constitution be put into effect until the new one has been approved. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I have a copy of the 1951 Constitution. While King Idris was a bit backward thinking on human rights and freedom of religion, the drafters of the 1951 Constitution were not. It is a pretty good document and guarantees women's rights as well as freedom of religion. |
| Posted by: Mystic 2015-03-23 01:54 |