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Aguila Saleh the speaker of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) which supports the GNS and a close ally of Libyan National Army commander General Khalifa Belqasim Haftar has said that he would 'not oppose any meeting that would help end the crisis ' in reference to UN envoy Abdoulaye Bathily's call to hold a meeting for all Libyan parties...
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The documents filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) detail a standard political and media lobbying retainer except that Schmitz is listed as the parliament's representative Since 2016 the powerful speaker of the Tobruk-based Parliament Aguila Saleh had a contract worth US$6 million per year with arms dealer turned lobbyist Ari Ben Menashe...
The speaker of the House of Representatives Aguila Saleh who is a close relative of the mayor of Derna Abdel Moneim al Ghaithi told a parliamentary session on 14 September the disaster was the will of God...
Significantly there has been no pushback from eastern-based militia leader General Khalifa Haftar nor from the speaker of the House of Representatives Aguila Saleh who usually never misses an opportunity to criticise Dubaiba...
That prospect seems slim despite the constant flow of allegations of corruption and intensifying UN and United States pressure on the president of the HoR Aguila Saleh Issa and the president of the SC Khaled al Mishri to come up with a new constitutional pathway and a timetable to elections...
That prospect seems slim despite the constant flow of allegations of corruption and intensifying UN and United States pressure on the president of the HoR Aguila Saleh Issa and the president of the SC Khaled al Mishri to come up with a new constitutional pathway and a timetable to elections...
The outcome of the fighting may have weakened Bashagha in the eyes of Haftar and the House of Representatives and its president Aguila Saleh...
So far none of the other candidates have followed Dubaiba and gone back to their day jobs although they may if elections are postponed again especially HoR president Aguila Saleh and Gen Haftar the HoR-appointed head of the armed forces...
Under the terms of the Presidential Elections Law announced by the House of Representatives (HoR) Speaker Aguila Saleh Issa on 9 September candidates must step aside from their jobs three months before the election although the law also says they can return to them and claim back-pay if they fail to be elected...
Under the terms of the Presidential Elections Law announced by the House of Representatives (HoR) Speaker Aguila Saleh Issa on 9 September candidates must step aside from their jobs three months before the election although the law also says they can return to them and claim back-pay if they fail to be elected...
For his part HoR Speaker Aguila Saleh Issa talks about the need for elections but only presidential ones...
For his part HoR Speaker Aguila Saleh Issa talks about the need for elections but only presidential ones...
Aguila Saleh Issa speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) the eastern-based parliament was supposedly a shoo-in for president but that didn't happen either...
Aguila Saleh Issa speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) the eastern-based parliament was supposedly a shoo-in for president but that didn't happen either...
