“We are looking forward to overcome many obstacles” to achieve parliamentary and presidential elections on Dec. 24, Saleh told lawmakers in his opening remarks.Dbeibah, a powerful businessman from the western city of Misrata, was appointed last month to lead the executive branch of an interim government that also includes a three-member Presidential Council chaired by Mohammad Younes Menfi, a Libyan diplomat from the country’s east.
Dbeibah’s proposed Cabinet includes 33 ministers and two deputy prime ministers who he said are representative of Libya’s different geographic areas and social segments. Dbeibah said if parliament fails to confirm his Cabinet, it would hamper the political road map and prolong Libya’s years-long crisis.
The interim government has been facing allegations of corruption at meetings of a UN-picked 75-member political dialogue forum. Dbeibah earlier this month refuted the allegations and called the UN to reveal the conclusions of its investigations.Sirte has been controlled by forces of military commander Khalifa Hifter since they seized it from the UN-supported government last year during Hifter’s failed campaign to take control of the capital, Tripoli.
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