By Ahmed Elumami,
Tripoli, 29 October 2013:
A deal has been reached over the GNC’s disputed agenda, that will see boycotting congressmen return . . .[restrict]to the chamber on Sunday.
GNC spokesman Omar Hmaidan said that the remaining congressmen meeting in closed session today had agreed to talk to the 94 of their colleagues who walked out last Sunday, protesting last minute changes to the session’s agenda.
As a result of those discussions later in the day, according to one of those who joined the boycott, Sabrata independent Salah Mito, a deal had been struck whereby on Sunday and Tuesday, some elements of the original agenda will be tabled.
That original schedule had contained a request to cancel the establishment of the Libyan Revolutionaries Operation Room (LROR), set up by the Congress president Nuri Abu Sahmain and implicated in the 10 October kidnapping of premier Ali Zeidan. There had also been a proposal for a committee to investigate the allocation of LD 900 million to the LROR and various revolutionary brigades by Abu Sahmain.
Congress had also been scheduled to discuss restricting presidential powers, including Abu Sahmain’s taking the post of commander-in-chief. Members also wanted to press ahead with the much-postponed election of a first deputy president.
Mito told the Libya Herald that it had been agreed that some, but not all the disputed agenda items would be restored. He added that the boycotters had been told that they could have no say in what was actually included. However, if none of the disputed issues was tabled , Mito said he thought that the congressmen would walk out again.
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