By Sami Zaptia.
Tripoli, 5 August 2014:
In the early hours of this morning Ageela Issa was elected as the new president of the House of Representatives by 77 votes over his opponent Abubaker Baera who obtained 74 votes. A total of 158 members participated in the vote.
Here is a brief cv of the House of Representatives president:
FULL NAME: Ageela Saleh Issa Egweder Al-Ghaiti Al-Abaidy
DOB: 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH: Gubba, eastern Libya
EDUCATION: License in law
OCCUPATION: retired legal counsellor
EXPERIENCE: 10 years in District General's department in the eastern region of Libya
- 5 years as the District Attorney for the Green Mountain eastern region
- Considered one of the most experienced and oldest District Attorneys in Libya.
- Unsubstantiated claims on Facebook being circulated by his opponents and opponents of the whole GNC-House of Representative handover process in Tobruk of having had paid homage to Qaddafi in a public gathering.
However, he has passed the screening process of the Political Isolation Law Committee and was therefore able to take up his House of Representative seat in Tobruk yesterday.