Fathi Bashagha, who was recently appointed by pro-coup Libyan general Khalifa Haftar, based in Tobruk parliament as the new prime minister to replace Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, expressed his determination to establish the new government in the capital Tripoli.
In a video message, he posted on Facebook, Bashagha said he was determined to former the government in Tripoli and does not intend to establish a “parallel government” Anywhere else in the country.
Without specifying names, Bashagha said that some countries offered to mediate between him and Dbeibah, but the latter rejected the offer.
He said they were ready for all types of dialogue, including domestic and international initiatives while rejecting allegations that the armed forces supporting are limited to the east of the country.
Dbeibah has been appointed acting chief last year as part of a UN-backed process to help the North African country recover from a decade of the chaos that followed the eviction of dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
His government had the mandate to lead the country in the elections on December 24, 2021.
But the polls were canceled and parliament began interviewing candidates to replace Dbeibah, a process that could trigger new is West power struggles in the troubled nation. The basis is parliament East in to favor of the putschist general Khalifa Haftar, who led a campaign against the internationally recognized interim government take over capital Tripoli.
He loaded it with forming a government to replace that of Dbeibah, based in the capital Tripoli in west of the country and considered by Saleh to have survived son mandate.
the emergence of by Bashagha government once again give the country two prime ministers, as was the case between 2014 and an East-West ceasefire in 2020.
Bashagha, a 59-year-old former fighter pilot trainer of Misrata near Tripoli, is supported by the eastern-based putschist general Khalifa Haftar whose disastrous 2019-2020 attack on capital has ended in defeat and a return to UN peace efforts, following Turkey support to legitimate Tripoli government.
During Bashagha’s stint as an interior minister in 2018-2021 he worked for reduce influence of militias and bring the fighters into the state-run forces.
He is one of the few big Libyan actors to have good reports with foreign powers supporting rival parties in the country.
