Members of the Misrata’s Council of Elders were in east Libyan town of Guba yesterday to build bridges with their counterparts from the region in support of the “Libya-Libya” Dialogue being pursued by the presidents of the both the General National Congress (GNC) and the House of Representatives (HoR).
The presidents of the General National Congress (GNC) and the House of Representatives (HoR), Nuri Abu Sahmain and Ageela Saleh, are reportedly to be planning a second meeting, possibly in Oman tomorrow, Wednesday.
Tehran, Dec 21, IRNA – Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Monday registered for the 5th Experts Assembly election, slated for February.
Speaking to reporters, Ayatollah Rafsanjani said the Experts Assembly is the pivot, basis and pillar of Islamic Revolution.
He said in the next few months, the new Experts Assembly and Majlis will be formed – both playing key role in country’s destiny.
He added those winning public votes will shoulder grave responsibility.
RIYADH: Nearly two million people around the world visited the Saudi municipal elections’ website during the election period, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The elections, whose results were announced recently, made use of the late
JEDDAH: The Shoura Council will vote on Monday (today) on a proposal to identify tasks of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) by issuing specific guidelines for the body’s members.
A Shoura me
Tripoli was the elephant that was very much not in the room when 24 municipal councils today signed up for the Government of National Accord at a Tunis ceremony hosted by UNSMIL chief Martin Kobler.
In the harshest attack to date on General National Congress (GNC) president Nuri Abu Sahmain, maverick Misratan politician Abdurrahman Sewehli has accused him of damaging the UN-led Libya Dialogue process because of “narrow personal interests”. He accused him too of hypocrisy and of “blindly and madly” believing he was the guardian of the revolution.
The continuing General National Congress in Tripoli and the government it appointed led by Khalifa Ghwell may be firmly opposed to the UN-brokered Libya Political Agreement (LPA) signed last week in Skhirat, as are also the militias who are the real arbiters of power in the city (although a member of
Tripoli was the elephant that was very much not in the room when 24 municipal councils today signed up for the Government of National Accord at a Tunis ceremony hosted by UNSMIL chief Martin Kobler.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan’s Civil Society Coordination Centre (CSCC) said on Sunday rejected the nomination of three civil society representatives to the selection committee, a body tasked with recommending commissioners on the election commissions.
Libya Herald Managing Editor met a number of House of Representatives (HoR) members in Tunis yesterday on their way back from signing the Libyan Political Agreement in Skhirat, Morocco.
A number of ex-Jihadi leaders, former senior government officials and civil society members gathered on Friday to establish the Council of Protection and Stability in Afghanistan in order to find solutions for current challenges and to support the system.
DAMMAM — Women members of municipal councils will not interact with their male counterparts face-to-face, according to Director General of Municipal Councils Affairs Judai Al-Qahtani.
“We are making a lot of new adjustments with the participation of women in the council. However, we will not compromise the religious boundaries. Female members have equal rights as male members of the council but they will not have mixed meetings,” said Al-Qahtani.
Just a month after he took over as UNSMIL chief from Bernardino Leon, Martin Kobler watched while the deal, much of which has been hammered out over the past year by members of the Libyan Dialogue, was finally signed.
The agreement brings into being a nine-man presidential council headed by prime minister Faiez Serraj which will form a cabinet to run a Government of National Accord.
Following months of delays, the Selection Committee (SC) members for the election commissions on Thursday managed to convene their first preliminary meeting aimed at discussing their working program going forward.
The selection committee is assigned the task to scrutinize at least 36 nominees for the election commissions on the basis of their qualifications and experience and recommend their names to government.
The 33rd presidential elections session was postponed on Wednesday following a lack of quorum at parliament.
Speaker Nabih Berri scheduled the next session to January 7.
Following the postponement, Mustaqbal bloc leader MP Fouad Saniora warned: “The ongoing vacuum will lead to more dangers against Lebanon.”
“The ongoing vacuum will compound the internal problems in the country on various levels,” he added.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has again reiterated the need for a systemic change in Turkey’s governance, underlining that his aspiration for a presidential system had nothing to do with his personal prosperity.
“My duty as the president is to pave the way for the progress of my country and nation in every field and supporting efforts to this aim. Of course, it is the constitution which designates limits of my authority but my responsibility is certainly to my nation,” Erdoğan said on Dec. 17.
