By Libya Herald reporter.
Tripoli, 26 August 2015:
Despite a court injunction seemingly preventing municipal councillors in Central Tripoli from electing a new mayor to replace Mahdi Al-Harati, the Tripoli-based Ministry of Local Government has now ordered the councilors to go ahead and do so tomorrow, Thursday.
According to the ministry, a legal loophole was found enabling it to make the order.
Al-Harati had earlier obtained a court injunction against the Ministry authorising the holding of new mayoral elections for Central Tripoli Municipality. Councillors had already voted to remove him.
“He has failed to manage Tripoli and people around him will not work with him now,” a local government official told the Libya Herald.
A new mayor is expected to be announced by early afternoon Thursday. [/restrict]
