Abdulhamid Al-Dbeibah, the leader of Libya's Government of National Unity, stated that he supports the country's demonstrators and agrees that all institutions, including the government, should be replaced, and that there is no other way to achieve this other than by "election."
After
demonstrators stormed the parliament building in Tobruk, in the east, and held
the largest rally in years in Tripoli, the capital city of the west, Dbeibah
made his remarks.
In order to
protest the deteriorating living conditions and the political impasse,
demonstrators stormed the parliament building in Tobruk, in eastern Libya.
On Friday, media
sites displayed pictures of dense columns of black smoke emanating from the
parliament building's perimeter as irate teenage protestors torched tyres.
Several television programs reported that protesters had entered the parliament
building and committed acts of damage.
Since Muammar
Gaddafi was overthrown in a NATO-backed rebellion in 2011, Libya has been in
complete disarray. It broke apart in 2014 into rival eastern and western
factions, and a peace process that started in 2020 attempted to reunite the
nation.
However, the
eastern-based parliament declared that Abdulhamid al-interim Dbeibah's unity
administration had expired and named Fathi Bashagha to take his place when a
scheduled poll was called off in December.
Images from the
demonstration in Tobruk, in the east of the country, showed a protester
operating a bulldozer that was able to partially crash down a fence,
facilitating easier access for other protesters to the parliament building.
Other protestors flung office papers into the air while some waved the green
flags of the Gaddafi dictatorship.
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