Libya’s eastern-based parliament has approved a national reconciliation and transitional justice law, as stated by three of its lawmakers. The measure is aimed at reunifying the oil-producing country after over a decade of factional conflict.
The UN’s mission to Libya has repeatedly called for an inclusive, rights-based transitional justice and reconciliation process.
In Tripoli, the capital city of Libya, the Government of National Unity was installed through a UN-backed process in 2021. But, while the Government is led by Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, the parliament no longer recognizes its legitimacy.
Since the collapse of an election in December of 2021, political processes set to address years of institutional division and warfare have been stalled. Libya faces conflict in the form of two competing legislative bodies—the House of Representatives and High Council of State in Tripoli.
The Tripoli-based Presidential Council has been working on a reconciliation project and a prospective conference with the U.N. and African Union. Yet differences impose a threat to bringing the rivaling groups together.
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