🇱🇾⚡- Libya's 4+4 Agreement:
On August 30, UN-brokered a deal to achieve unity between the different Libyan governing bodies, known as the 4+4 agreement. The agreement seeks to unite all representatives:
- Two from the Government of National Unity, GNU (west Libya),
- Two from the High Council of State, HCoS (west Libya),
- Two from the House of Representatives, HoR (east Libya),
- Two from the Eastern Military Command, LNA (east Libya).
The deal has been backed by most of Libya's representative bodies, including GNU Prime Minister Dbeibeh, LNA's Commander-in-Chief Haftar, and HoR Speaker Saleh. Chairman of the HCoS Takala declined to attend the signing ceremony, and the Presidential Council body have outright rejected the restructuring of the election commission. The agreement calls for presidential and parliamentary elections within 24 months. The elections will be held under one unified executive authority (a restructured High National Elections Commission, HNEC).
However, the 4+4 agreement also, without surprise, allows military personnel to register with Libya's new HNEC and run for the office of Prime Minister or President, hence Haftar's endorsement of the agreement.
Over the past 48 hours, the decision to allow military personnel to run for political office has become a major point of contention in GNU's west Libya, led by the GNU's Deputy Defense Minister Abdulsalam al-Zubi and Abdul Majeed Mlegta, Chief of GNU's Intelligence services. Several prominent GNU brigades in Misrata, Tripoli and the wider area have come out in support of al-Zubi, who has threatened to halt the 4+4 agreement with military means if necessary.
A state of alert has been declared across Misrata by the GNU as al-Zubi and his supporters, the Misrata Military Council and Western Plain Military Council, have established an 'operations room' to contest the 4+4 Agreement militarily.
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