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In a point-blank challenge to Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba's government in Tripoli the parliament in the eastern city of Tobruk the House of Representatives (HoR) endorsed a new government on 1 March to be led by former interior minister Fathi Bashagha (AC Vol 63 No 1 Political leaders versus the polls)...
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Also three of the most prominent presidential candidates – warlord General Khalifa Haftar current Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba and Seif el Islam el Gadaffi son of the former dictator – are unacceptable to too many people with the means to prevent the polls (AC Vol 62 No 24 Everyone wants to be president)...
And then on 21 November the interim prime minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba despite earlier promising not to stand for the presidency submitted his nomination papers on 21 November...
Speaker Saleh is expected to be another leading candidate but he too is widely despised particularly after getting the HoR to withdraw confidence from the government of Abdel Hamid Dubaiba whose appointment to head a unity government in February was considered a major breakthrough (AC Vol 62 No 4 Fortune favours new regime)...
The GNU headed by Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba likewise speaks approvingly of elections but wants to stay in power (AC Vol 62 No 7 Dubaiba's honeymoon)...
It was the LPDF that nominated Abdel Hamid Dubaiba for the premiership...
For the first time in over six years the country has a single administration – the government of national unity (GNU) led by Abdel Hamid Dubaiba...
Former Gadaffi regime official and plutocrat Abdel Hamid Dubaiba is to be prime minister and Mohamed Younes Manfi President...
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Abdel Hamid Dubaiba a prominent businessman from Misrata will be the transitional prime minister (AC Vol 61 No 22 Hope without optimism for the new deal)...
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ODAC was run by Ali Ibrahim Dubaiba whose cousin Abdel Hamid Dubaiba ran the Libyan Investment and Development Company which also managed vast numbers of projects...