By Libya Herald reporter.
Tripoli, 14 March 2016:
The continuing General National Congress (GNC) has sworn in a new batch of members to . . .[restrict]replace the ever diminishing number of those actually elected in July 2012.
According to the Tripoli office of the Libyan news agency LANA, a group of new members was sworn in today at the GNC’s Rixos headquarters in front of GNC president Nuri Abu Sahmain.
Well over half the original GNC members have resigned or simply abandoned the institution on the basis that it no longer legitimately exists. More recently the GNC presidency has taken to expelling members it does not like. In the past two months it has dismissed some 20 members, most recently last month, the deputy president Salah Makhzoum who signed the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) at Skhirat, Mohamed Al-Amari (who is also a member of the Presidency Council), and Belgassem Gzeit, the Misrata member who ledthe pro-LPA group within the GNC.
The GNC usually has replaced members with those candidates in the 2012 elections who came next on the ballot in the respective constituencies, providing that they are willing.
LANA did not say who the new members were, or where they represented.
The GNC no longer divulges its membership or names and numbers attending meetings. [/restrict]
