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Rami Musa
Bengazi, Libya (AP) — On Friday, demonstrators broke into a building containing a parliament based in eastern Libya in Toburg, which In protest of months of unsuccessful efforts to guide the divided nations on the road to elections.
One witness, Taher Amaizig, said thousands of people participated in the march to the Capitol, calling for the dissolution of current political power and the holding of elections. He said protesters were shot and other demonstrators forced their way in as guards tried to keep people out.
A video disseminated on social media showed protesters filing past a burning mountain. Friday is the first day of Libya's weekend. That is, the building may have been empty when the storm struck. It was unclear what the protesters intended by targeting the building
Other protests demanding elections were staged early in the day in several cities around Libya. rice field.
Anxiety is a UN-mediated consultation in Geneva by representatives of Libya's rivals (one based in the east of the country and the other in the west), and the constitutional constitution of the people. It happens the day after failing to reach an agreement on the framework. selection.
After more than a decade of war, the country again split into competing regimes and retreated despite a year of interim measures for unity.
Since the NATO-backed uprising collapsed in 2011 and killed long-time dictator Moammar Gadhafi, oil-rich Libya has been destroyed by conflict and rival governments. It led to the rise of. The eastern-based administration is backed by military commander Harifa Hifter, and the UN-backed administration is based in the capital of Tripoli. Each side is supported by different militia and foreign forces.
Toburg, a seat in the Libyan House of Representatives, has long been allied with Hifter. More recently, Congress has elected Fassie Basgaga as the prime minister of a government comparable to the Tripoli-based administration. A powerful former Interior Minister, Bashaga is now running another administration from the city of Sirte.
Libya's election plan on December 24, last year, failed because the Tripoli-based interim administration, led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamiddbeiba, was unable to proceed with the vote. This failure has hit international efforts to end the decade of turmoil in Libya.
Deterioration of economic conditions was also a factor in the protest on Friday. Hundreds of people came out earlier in the day in Tripoli, not only to oppose the political crisis, but also to combat power shortages and rising fuel and bread prices.
