UN special envoys to meet in Washington as figures show Libyan politicians’ salaries rose by more than 40% in 2022
Libya’s House of Representatives speaker, Aguila Saleh, centre, at the swearing-in ceremony for the country’s interim government in 2021.Libya’s House of Representatives speaker, Aguila Saleh, centre, at the swearing-in ceremony for the country’s interim government in 2021.
Elections planned for 2022 were cancelled due to disputes over the qualifications of candidates to stand, which masked a deeper reluctance by politicians in both the east and west of the country to risk a democratic winner-takes-all process that might see them lose access to state patronage and power.
Libya’s political leaders have gone round in circles with competing proposals for the constitutional basis of the elections.
Figures on how the state is spending money have been unclear for years, with a full UN-commissioned audit of the CBL accounts never published. The experienced former UN envoy in Libya, Stephanie Williams, recently said: “A transactional ruling class, some of whose network can be traced back to the days of the former regime, uses Libya’s state and sovereign institutions as cash cows in what could be described as a ‘redistributive kleptocracy’, bringing into their circles on a regular basis just enough of their compatriots to sustain the system.” She said some Libyan politicians simply did not see the need for elections.
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