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US Calls for Legal Framework for Libya’s Elections

Bathily reiterated the importance of the 6+6 committee’s role and responsibilities to produce the laws necessary to hold general and inclusive elections in Libya. Photo: UNSMIL’s Twitter Account
Bathily reiterated the importance of the 6+6 committee’s role and responsibilities to produce the laws necessary to hold general and inclusive elections in Libya. Photo: UNSMIL’s Twitter Account
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US Calls for Legal Framework for Libya’s Elections

Bathily reiterated the importance of the 6+6 committee’s role and responsibilities to produce the laws necessary to hold general and inclusive elections in Libya. Photo: UNSMIL’s Twitter Account
Bathily reiterated the importance of the 6+6 committee’s role and responsibilities to produce the laws necessary to hold general and inclusive elections in Libya. Photo: UNSMIL’s Twitter Account

The United States has renewed its call for an agreement on a legal framework for the delayed presidential and parliamentary elections in Libya.

US Ambassador Richard Norland said in a tweet that his country supported the call of Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Abdoulaye Bathily “for the 6+6 committee to reach agreement on a legal framework for elections and urge all of Libya’s political leadership to bring their influence to bear without delay.”

Meanwhile, Bathily received a delegation of the 6+6 committee at the headquarters of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya in Tripoli.

“Bathily reiterated the importance of the committee’s role and responsibilities to produce the laws necessary to hold general and inclusive elections in Libya,” UNSMIL said on Twitter on Saturday.

“Bathily joined by UNSMIL’s technical team, exchanged views with committee members on issues related to legal framework for elections. He renewed the Mission’s offer to provide all required support to enable the committee to conclude its work as soon as possible,” it added.

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RSF Forms Parallel Civilian Govt in Khartoum

Smoke billows in southern Khartoum on June 12, 2023 during fighting between Sudan's army and paramilitaries. (AFP)
Smoke billows in southern Khartoum on June 12, 2023 during fighting between Sudan's army and paramilitaries. (AFP)
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RSF Forms Parallel Civilian Govt in Khartoum

Smoke billows in southern Khartoum on June 12, 2023 during fighting between Sudan's army and paramilitaries. (AFP)
Smoke billows in southern Khartoum on June 12, 2023 during fighting between Sudan's army and paramilitaries. (AFP)

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan announced the formation of a civilian parallel government in Khartoum, 19 months after seizing the majority of the Sudanese capital, including the presidential palace and various ministries.

The RSF named Abdul Latif Abdullah al-Amin al-Hassan as prime minister and formed a 90-member legislative civilian council that would offer services to the people and restore security.

The council has elected a judicial council and has been sworn in.

The legislative council vowed to provide essential services to the people, protect them and offer them civil assistance. It also vowed to restore state agencies that have collapsed during the war that erupted in April 2023.

Khartoum had been without a government or administration since the cabinet relocated to Port Sudan during the war.

Head of the legislative council, Nael Babakir Nael Al-Mak Nasser, said the vacuum caused by the war led to the collapse in basic and essential services, leading the people to demand the establishment of a civilian administration.

“The people of Khartoum took on this historic responsibility and communicated with the RSF leaderships in the state to request their approval to establish a civilian administration that can offer basic services,” he told a press conference on Friday.

The civilian and judicial councils will cooperate to ensure the services and humanitarian aid reach the people in Khartoum.