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hello welcome to the program. i'm adrian finnegan. libya has been divided between 2 governments and 2 prime ministers. one of them has now been suspended, so not a list of warning. yes, another power struggle couldn't much. so how will this affect libya's other government based and tripoli? and could it lead to new alliances, both in politics and on the battle ground. would explore these issues in a moment, but i guess, but 1st a report from the zeros katia lopez for the young. he rose to power and libya's east hoping to take control of the country's west, but about a year into the job faulty pasha. the, the prime minister appointed by the eastern base parliament has been suspended and replaced by his finance minister. some analysts believe it's because he hasn't managed to on seat this man. his political bible and tripoli. ready abdul hamid the

bible was installed as prime minister in 2021 in a un bad process for years. it's fuel to power. struggle between 2 governments in one country who see there was certain personal interest in short gains involved in this matter. those seeking that own interest act in a way that benefits them. if someone is not acting enough, eva, they signed all the move in immediately. perhaps the biggest issue is money and how to make manage it. the government and tripoli has access to the state budget. the administration based and to broke does not. some analysts suggest the suspension may have been motivated by financial disagreements with war lord only for half door . and there are certain problems within the house of representatives, yet it adds to the challenges faced by the eastern region, as it said that the sugar had received funds and spent them without the knowledge of the house. and this is just one of many issues. many of libya's disputes have

played out in this oil refineries. armed groups in the east tub shut down some facilities in an attempt to get the sugar leverage in the capital. the closures put more pressure on world energy prices, but they did little to persuade the central bank of olivia to work with parliament . for more than a decade, there's been fighting in libya. walmart gadhafi was ousted and assessed, and 820 a little bit. 3 years later, the country was divided by warring factions, backed by armed groups. a ceasefire has ended, some of the fighting on the ground. but in the political arena, the battles continue. katia lopez, so the again for insights story the let's bring it out. guess then for today's discussion from istanbul with joined by an s l demonte,

founder and director of the setup institute. the 1st public sink tank in libya from tripoli was stuff with a tory journalist on political commentator on libya and in london as jason pac president of libya, analysis and also of libya and the global enduring disorder. gentlemen, welcome to you. oh and asked, let's start with you. what's really behind the removal of the of a shock. he's not the 1st to fail. to conquer tripoli, who's pulling the strings here, the house of representatives, or someone or something else. what is suddenly being for a long time? someone else and it's, it's certainly a group now it's not. let me just for the for half there is for the, for off their sons, through a behind that power move the boots for the, for after and, but had been shot together onto this pilot administration. the government of nationalist ability and it's doing very little stability as we, as we know, over the last 12 months it had 2 or at least 3 failed attempts to capture the capital. you know,

for the type of shuttles utility has kinda been lost. it was the as a union of quite a, in quite a strong man, strong man of the east to leave a half there bringing a strong light of the west. when that failed and the strong men of the west, the temperature was unable to capture tripoli, he kind of lost the tennessee became a paper government. and now it's just a kind of a feeble tool of, of, of political pressure ahead of what could be likely negotiations with the government of national unity and tripoli to also fund of endeavor on the very same experiment that union between those and tripoli and those until brought to the stuff or do you agree with what i was saying? but yeah, most of it except and it says that it's, it's really very hard to separate most often from the bottom of it. the man enjoys a quite large supports inside the inside the bone limited sun front. they are the bottom, interiors who voted them as the head of the ministry years ago,

and 2014 or 15 i believe. and what they, what i also see is the fact that there is some kind of a different approach from the some forces including the bottom. it doesn't just to after or did remove the signified by do more for that mr. bush out as a prime minister. and that could be the being ad, your understood then one of 3 ways. one, this varies from the message to mr. about tv. do you want the employee to libya? my development essentially telling them that we did though, or but did our bit or any possible bid for united, admitted to situations as well as a basis for the election sometime this year. so it's, they did the board and the court of the be able to interpret e i. e, mr. babe. and to that, mr. bush out of the 0 for stayed uh, is there to me in terms of usefulness to the forces in nice to libya,

especially you missed off there. and they're both lovely. and probably important point is the fact that he became reliability after he attempted twice to enter the capital over the last 12 months. as our call you from, somebody mentioned before and ended up being fairly actually use it, chased by minute to force out of the cabinet, some a or leaving behind you. don't me that's and they're quite large destruction and by, for the properties of debate. and so he became a liability and what yeah, why would that be his fault? so i'm sorry. why would that be his fault? the fact that he did, he couldn't what, what can i do? they base it basically. yeah, i would explain this very easily be because basically those also bore to might support you in general terms that you are the by administered, that you should take over board, but they are not necessarily uh, supporting the way you do it. you know the steps you think i'm not true and i'm, i'm quite sure actually that to consult the very might the front of the and the

issue for entering the copy put into way he did. and that because of the menu button, them and things are again, it's tim, essentially they don't want to, i didn't send you more or less. the fact that he's received increasingly as being the receive does not prey key and then naturally reconciliation as we have seen over the last few months that the may to commission fire plus 5. as it meant to be said, lean burglarizing and tripoli and both sides are token and tim is admitted g uh, arrangements i please. and it should receive a declaration banashali. i've already been sent to some kind of hoax. you know, on the eastern side of the country, and that's not, that's not something was come to bless the fact, we should not disco. and toward this credit, the allegations of, of cut off, of corruption to get us to me. i mean, the whole country's crowds or top to the bottom. that's true. but there are certain

serious allegations here facing a misstep are saying the hope the whole country is corrupt. the fact that he's been rude removed from office and i'm just now being investigated. so it doesn't have everything to do with the fact that he failed to take control of trip or tripoli. he is one of libya's most influential politicians, a former interior minister. i mean, why given that the whole countries grew up, what could he have done wrong, or is this a, a trump top charge against him if you like a smoke screen? well i think it's important to zoom out and drawn some of the very good points that on us and the stuff i have made. so the reason there was a g n s, a general national stability government appointed in the eastern early 20. $22.00 is the failure of the un process to culminate in elections in 2021. and the reason that that failed is because all the status quo

o actors from device to have char, to the u, a. e and turkey and youtube didn't want there to be elections. the status co actors are happy for things to continue as they are, they make their corruption. libya is a failed or implemented, stayed with all these different $77.00 institutions and, and each of the regional powers have their own interests. but charlotte was chosen and the need is because it was the shonda who had defended tripoli from the charge of salt in 20202021 as the interior minister. and that made it seem like oh the east is not that bias. the east is bi partisan, blah, blah, blah. and this also took the shot, the way as a threat. after he failed to enter tripoli in 2022 and early 2023. he's a busted flush is no longer useful. rather than the victory and defending aaa that he had in his resume, it's the failure to re enter correctly on behalf of the east. so how star and his

sons, and to give us our, i have just started him. they're taking a potential arrival to the status quo when they've gotten rid of him. so now it's nearly impossible to have unity government and it will be impossible to move to elections. and therefore, what we've heard from our friends in tripoli and assemble is all correct. this is all part of the parlor game, whereby the libyan actors make it more complicated for the international to ever have an election arise to end, the regional powers conspire in the global and during disorder to make sure that there can never be any progress. so it was a where does that leave the u. n. a? it's it's invoice. who recently came up with, with yet another initiative to try to hold elections while it leaves them back at square 0 as they've been the whole time. the announced the steering committee in early january 2023 and he said the steering committee was going to be going around the a trustee on the h o r. then when egypt pushed back, what do you know?

he said, oh, actually we're gonna have this during committee as advisory, and we're going to work through the h o r and it just see to make the electronic legislation right now given what's happening in sudan, egypt and the average of the dominant player. so they support opposite sides in sudan, but they work together in libya to prevent progress. nothing can go ahead. certainly, while the target selection is ongoing, without egypt and the emirates wanting to secure it, so the end moratti's and the egyptians of the media years. and they don't want to see any progress, so we're completely stalled and the un and the west has taken the right off the ball again. and i'd ask the speaking of that, let's go back to the corruption issue, a foot for a moment. who's most likely to replace the shag, and in the long term, is that person any better placed in the crisis in libya or a given what adjacent was, was, was just saying that it doesn't really matter who is in charge of the east based

government. well, i certainly believe in that it doesn't matter who is in charge of something or how much is monday and so must have been people is a member of the bottom, i believe. but the reality and i think i have to talk to him on the 2 points that were made by, by most of a and a bunch i, some is the number one, the idea that we have a problem with the enjoy credibility, the enjoys legitimacy. let's just remember and remind our view is number one, that problem was like a decade ago in a suffocated political process ever since, as, as the, as jason was waiting to. but also that, that parliament was brought down on a set on fire by parliament, by protesters last summer, and part us against the thought of scorn. it has been the parliament's. i mean, i would say that the elements of corruption, the 2 of us, because i pointed to, that's certainly true. i mean, the government, i tripoli, assigned to corrupt the 7 previous into and governments of certainly have that kind of option. but that's not blocking. the elections will block selections of 2 factors, 1st and elections law. and secondly, the constitutional basis of those elections. and they are central tenants of the un roadmap. those, the central attendance, a controlled by the 2 rival parliaments,

the highest, the cancel that was elected in 2012 is not a consultation, a body. and the parliaments that we refer to in eastern libya. those the parliaments have absolutely no ambition. them no incense is to hold that actions those. the problem as of the very reasons why we didn't have elections last year, because we kept agreeing to disagree over the constitutional basis. and they like total libya, the idea that they have any incentive, the very idea that they had been a going to be the next custodians. olivia's election roadmap when they have actually blocked successive a time since 2015 to hold elections as a jug. and i think that when we have to kind of really kind of tied down and where to drill down on the actors that are blocking elections, which had mentioned that as to the bottom. it's also also, and on this, the idea of how people have to enjoy the relationship about parliament. the last problem entirely the enjoy the relationship with philip after was close to him. so okay, well, she was most likely assassinated by his forces when she asked for

a peace deal, or at least an end to the war that started in 2019. that is a continuation of what has been happening now. it is brute force that is at the heart of the policies that are being conducted in east, in libya, fairly rarely, if ever reaches core and has more than a $122.00 members. so by its own rules and regulations, the comp possibly legislation, the composite need to any uh, any uh, actions over the government and tripoli, or even assigning power. i'll government the gymnast. this is just an app. and like i said before, it's a feeble tool, an estimate the pressure that they're trying to use to force a government tripoli. the very same tax, excited with that type of shot in 2022. the very same tactics they did with the call them. and so the government that was established in 2015 the government of national accord. this is the old one in the bottles. and i'm, and frankly, many of us that are analyzing it, many that i sitting in libya, i just part of the same old game is this and asking to kind of a scan it to into full blown violence again as well. i mean, given the fact that when you look at the rule,

there is the right thing. the rules of what has happened over the last uh, 7 or 8 years. its since the 2014 civil war uh, individuals bought for the for after the is been investigated for war crimes. was shaking hands with the prosecutor general of the icpc con, uh, only for a few months ago. he's still enjoys international relationships with the likes of the millennium, but especially until the way he visited only a few weeks ago. he hosted william burns, the chief of the seal. ha. so i mean, all of these discrete relationships give you an idea of the kind of client that the individual has. the very fact that he has gone away with repeated. busy grabs and tripoli, power grabs and cruise the date back to 1969. if we consider that his career was over 54 years. you know, that involves a number of different actors. the of, as a, jason was related to that. give him diplomatic support like the likes of the u, a. e in front, and the likes of russia, the likes of egypt. this is an individual that embodies and symbolizes the kind of crimes and the kind of erosion of the norms and international norms in libya.

whether it's, you know, putting human bodies in ovens as we saw in the town of, but who knows? 60 somebody kilometers away from tripoli, whether it's importing in duplicate currencies. a fact that has never happened that history was silver and come and see the libyan county was duplicated by russia. $10000000000.00 worth was duplicated and set into the country the fund award that killed other libyans. but whether it's bring in mass moves from deluxe to the u, i. e. so don, russia, you name it, they were that. i mean, all of those facts give you an idea that the games, the rules of the game had been eroded a long time ago. so if anybody wants to commit violence, it's the one that comes with that scrutiny and it comes with a penalty. so i always think that we're on the verge of that, but because it's been repeated so many times, i think they're trying to give diplomacy a chance most likely will try to go with another failed experiment as they did with this janice and will come up with another acronym that won't work, but when the time that it's failed, they'll remove that bodies mice. lucky and tripoli, because that has been the objective of all of the political elite,

but i liked to illegitimate and a far expired mind, but a long, long time ago. stuff just as a, as an aside the sugar had his headquarters in such a what if his future now if these, if these a allegations against him come come to north and we've, we've been got power centers in tripoli to brooklyn. and so i'm in the countries partition. freeways is mid as closely you could say that then i would also add the point that mister west, how the being that whole cushion then presenting himself was you know, uh capable must or last during some kind of force behind him in, namely munitions, that's a bottom you know, it's, it's, it that this kind of tactic, if you like, or because intention of the car in itself has, has ended, you know, it's, it's, it's not time for death. mr. becky, at least get supported by the international community at least in terms of what

they are saying publicly, doesn't want to see some kind of holtgrewe shudder. why is it or complex or up to here and there. but what has happened, essentially with mr. bus shop, i think it was, you know, i would term it as, you know, ballistic and suicide for him. and for us to place actually to accept the, the idea of becoming a prime minister. and then you say libya, god bless the fact that he initiated the process of broaching cofton or instead of brushing the eastern horses and in general. so that was what, what actually brought him in as a, as a buddhist player and then no money to them as the selected. you know, i agree when they're sitting, if you like to be at the head of the g and ice and then you say libya.

jason, what are expects full of the issue that you touched upon earlier about the accidental insurances that there are in libya? you mention took in egypt in particular. what happens if, if president of the one isn't re elected in the run off how to, how does that change things as well? i was very helpful. the president or the one might, by some miracle, not be re elected. unfortunately, nearly 150 percent in the 1st round. he got 49 percent and therefore he's almost certain unless there's another earthquake or some new scandal to get over the 50 percent in the runoff. so it's not worth really debating too much because that ship has sailed. and this is because throughout the whole world incumbency and being famous, gives you power. and this is one of the tenants of the enduring disorder. it doesn't matter if you're trying to recruiting or orb under or the one, and of course populace can lose as both in are of did. so i'm not just saying that

i'm a populous twin, but if you want to these populace your bill to the public, i and you said there are problems, more problems and you don't fix them. you just run again. um only i can fix them. so trump says, i'm going to build a wall and stop mexican migrants. he never builds the wall. he's done when he's out of power complaints are more migrant. so you need to elect him to fix the migrants, but he doesn't actually try to fix your mattress. or you say, are you, are you saying here that but the talk, he's on the line in fluids in libya. of course, i mean it's a mock maligned influence throughout the whole region. but i'm explaining neil populism as it bears on a question like libya, the trucks and the egyptians are the same. and as they say, well, we're really invested, we're really working to fix things. okay, but actually they're very happy for us to continue, because then it's a problem on which they can continue to attract domestic support. need the western players to work with them. what we see in libya is the enduring disorder globally,

out and a small microcosm. i the, the regional powers, turkey, egypt, u, a e has a major influence. there's a dominant players at the us that you can, the, you are small players, they're not able to order things and libya and the regional players are happy for the complex to continue. so they can be needed to quote, unquote, help solve them, which they're not trying to solve. that's the during disorder. and as i saw, you vigorously disagreeing the of the fact that the, the actions of the talk is government when they wish they took in late 2019 sonia the memorandum of understanding and merits on agreements. those are transactional deal between the libyan government of the form and of you and government and the talk. so ministration is also not a policy of the a k parts. it's not policy or the end as part of the lobby homeland policy that was developed by a talk is our administrative defense. a longstanding policy that was caused that independently of the political administration itself. but what i would say is that most libyans themselves would most likely not criticize the intervention that was

taken by turkey. certainly not the government of national record concerning the residents of tripoli that were being absolutely assaulted from left right and centre by russian lesson raised by him or ought to drones by such a hard african most miserable and by how much of himself. busy when it came down to the crunch of what happened on april 4th, 2019 the government of national quote, appeal to the you and the board and the power. and they said, why did you sanction this actor that is doing this? they felt the sanction him. they also your opinion, they felt the sanction have they all submitted for support from a number of different countries. they failed to act. they also took it to act. kentucky was doing well, the us, what do you and i had mentioned some, what european actors should have done when they have the leverage on that. but it's about time just now. it took them to a hunch and came in to a point where it defended the lives of to many of the residents of tripoli, the house in advance, and the rest of the country hasn't taken aggressive stones on uh, on the forces mr. libya and i'd like to stay on right now. what i would agree with him in terms of jason's analysis is that they've entered into

a status quote with the not that much time with russia and the cause of that the stalemate has really played the country moving forward. but i wouldn't say that such as intervention was somehow drummed up by president or the board that it was a malign influence. in fact, it was the any influence the brought the country to a cease fire when the un attempted to broker one several times and failed. chase and you would have drunk very quickly to reply to the yes, that's correct. of course. when house door a tax on april 4th 2019 the g and i came to washington, i met with them. they wanted to go to the u. k. s. italy, and of course they asked to be saved. they asked for arms. they asked for help, and they weren't banded by their western allies. major italy, the u. k, or us came to save them. the troops came in. they invented a new form of drawn warfare which was able to defeat the russian and m a roddy anti aircraft batteries. and they save tripoli and the libyan people will be forever grateful for that. and i'm grateful for that. i was commenting on the current

situation whereby there's a car about their are now turkish interested in the oil trading, see, or may be part of by again. and then the russians are doing certain things at the top net is developing well and the m right is work now both with the bible and would people like a de la salad. but they've kind of settled on how to start. and then just because of working with hop, tarren libby, ahold of the impulse of char in his sedan adventure. so the point is, the truck has a great role to save aaa, but now they're just the status co actor working with libyan status. collectors to produce the global enduring disorder and you need to graphs that none of these regional powers have a vision for libya. they don't have a vision for the region other than for it to be the stabilized so that they can just stay in power up. the stuff that we've been talking about, the 2 administrations and east of the west, the, the external influence is upon them. but there's another underlying issue here, though the, the militias or international efforts focusing on reaching

a political settlement. but you put this on those militias to integrate them somehow in, into a society. i mean, it's not ever going to be done, you know, will never be done. actually. i don't think i don't really consider this to be, but i see a consider the priority by you this high, the non western d is to because the, as well as the same goes for new the international vectors who are meddling. indeed, it'd be enterprise because, you know, you can all those uses as such a talk soon on diamond munitions, the weather in the east, and that is how it or, and do with somebody to the country. so that the idea, i mean, what we have seen some kind of trying to do, you know, i'll be seeing over the last a few is after, you know, during good starting, you know, the, the last year from the sister rogers is government is that most of those bugs, you know, our malicious uh, our, our gate, you know,

gaining legitimacy if you liked by being somehow seemingly integrated into, uh, serious, uh, government, uh, organizations like we have cnn to be here with the one the other. and so, you know, the same goes for the symbolic ruby at the same thing. so the idea of, uh, the, there's also a, uh, you know, a tricky thing here both by the united nations at the time or for stephanie williams. you know, that the most say is for example, who are the backbone or for supporting either side when there is a war including diminishes. of course, when there's, here's why they can only be, especially the african ones. they can only be sent back. their content is like a chat that's with them. for example, when those countries are stay barely enough to receive them. and this condition has been repeated recently by mr. becky. that means they will never go back because those countries very good examples of which to dad and chat with never actually be

stable in the near future at the so the heck, the libya will continue on. the idea of, you know, integrating those arm admit issues. you know, into a serious government entities is tre. i'm like in the for see, but in future. unfortunately, it's all right gentlemen, but i'm afraid we must to leave it and i saw a commodity in the stuff of tory and jason pack. thank you very much. indeed. for being with us on inside story. as always, thanks to you for watching, you can see the program again at any time by visiting the website. you'll find that i'll just 0, don't com for further discussion. joining us about facebook page, you'll find that at facebook dot com forward slash age a inside story out. of course, you can join the conversation on twitter handle at a joy inside story. for me, i agree and fit again as a team here. and so how, thanks for being with us, so you have to find out the the

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