Delegations from rival Libyan institutions resumed their discussions in Morocco on Wednesday to try to break the political impasse and prevent the country from falling back into chaos.
Libya has endured a turbulent decade since it split in 2014 between two administrations in the east and west, following the NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
The talks in Bouznika, near the Moroccan capital Rabat, took place between rival legislative bodies known as the High Council of State, based in Tripoli in the west, and the House of Representatives, based in Benghazi in the ‘East.
At the opening of consultations between the institutions, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita urged participants to work together to preserve Libya’s unity and prepare for “credible elections.”
“The numerous international and regional conferences on Libya will not replace the inter-Libyan dialogue, which is credible and supported by the parties concerned,” he said.
The political process aimed at ending years of institutional division, open war and unstable peace has been stalled since the failure of an election scheduled for December 2021, due to disputes over the electability of the main candidates .
The House of Representatives was elected in 2014 as the national parliament with a four-year term to oversee the political transition.
Under a 2015 Libyan political agreement in Skhirate, Morocco, near Rabat, the High Council of State was established as a second consultative chamber with an advisory role.
But the House of Representatives then appointed its own rival government, declaring that the prime minister’s term of a national unity government had expired. The eastern-appointed government had little influence, but its appointment revived Libya’s east-west divide.
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