Parliament Votes To Suspend Prime Minister In Libya

Libya’s eastern-based parliament has voted to suspend its Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha and has replaced him with his Finance Minister Osama Hamada.

Report says Mr. Bashagha took the post last year but has been unable to supplant the rival interim prime minister of the UN-recognised government, Abdulhamid al-Ddeibah, based in the capital, Tripoli.

The eastern parliament said Mr. Dbeidah’s mandate expired in December 2021 after national elections were postponed.

Since then there have been clashes between supporters of the two men – most notably when Mr. Bashagha tried and failed to enter Tripoli in May last year.

BBC/Christopher Ojilere