TRIPOLI, 26 February, 2021 (TON): As the deadline approached on Thursday, Libya’s newly elected PM was unable to name the members of the cabinet, thus raising questions whether his interim government can unify the factions or not.

The Prime Minister-designate Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah was set to announce his Cabinet in a news conference from the capital Tripoli and send it to Libya’s House of Representatives for approval, however, he only shared proposed guidelines for the selection of Cabinet members with Libyan lawmakers and an outline of his priorities in the coming period, he told.
“We are ready to submit the names (of Cabinet ministers) but we should consult among ourselves and examine candidate names meticulously,” Dbeibah told reporters in Tripoli without specifying when he will actually make the submission.
“These are critical times and we are taking into consideration that the Cabinet must genuinely achieve national unity and seek consensus and reconciliation,” he said.
Earlier this month, Dbeibah was elected as prime minister by Libyan delegates at an UN-sponsored conference near Geneva.

The move waits to appoint the Cabinet as it is a part of an UN-backed transitional roadmap, which envisages holding general elections in the war-torn North African country by the end of the year.