Libya lawmakers pass no confidence vote for transition govt

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libyan lawmakers connected Tuesday passed a ballot of nary assurance successful the country’s transitional government, an authoritative said, a determination that throws long-waited elections precocious this twelvemonth into further uncertainty.

The ballot took spot successful the parliament’s office successful the eastbound metropolis of Tobruk, said Abdullah Ablaihig, a spokesperson for the legislature.

He said 113 lawmakers attended the session, with 89 of them voting successful favour of withdrawing assurance successful the authorities of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah.

Ablaihig said Dbeibah’s authorities would enactment arsenic a caretaker medication without giving a timeframe for the assignment of different authorities 3 months earlier parliamentary and statesmanlike elections connected Dec. 24.

There was nary contiguous remark from the premier minister. A spokesperson for the authorities said Dbeibah was expected to code the federation Tuesday.

Tuesday’s ballot of nary assurance is different situation to holding the December elections and impedes efforts to unite the oil-rich North African federation aft a decennary of turmoil.

Dbeibah, a almighty businessman from the occidental metropolis of Misrata, was appointed earlier this twelvemonth to pb the enforcement subdivision of an interim authorities that besides includes a three-member Presidential Council chaired by Mohammad Younes Menfi, a Libyan diplomat from the country’s east.

The transitional authorities replaced 2 rival administrations — 1 based successful the country’s eastbound and different successful the westbound — that had ruled Libya for years.

Oil-rich Libya was plunged into chaos aft a 2011 NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.